richard nixon on the left would meet herbert hoover that sanger nixon was giving a big speech there aboutoover. but when he really had to do is meet with reagan because reagan by now is actively seeking a 1968 nomination. he's beginning to contest primaries in the beginning to pick up delegates. he's got the right wing republican party completely won over. he's got people like william f. buckley sanders sought to vote for accept ronald reagan and his nixon who thought he would have a stately walk, set late with the newcomer from california. not to go back in 1947 when he was a young congressman. so they've known each other for a long time, corresponding to the early 1960s. but by this time they're on opposite sides. as we found throughout the story, demand for randall's long before they reach the oval office. this is the picture that most people probably can't time, the red after nixon had made his comeback after watergate, reagan as president and there's a great story between the two of them. the nixon become president he goes to sleep right at walter reid and i.t. is not well and ill so

richard nixon on the left would meet herbert hoover at the grove. that summer nixon was giving the big speech about hoover. he went to meet with reagan because reagan by now is actively seeking the 1968 nomination. he is beginning to attend primary sand pick up delegates. he has the right wing of the republican party completely back over. people like william f. buckley saying there's no one else to vote for except ronald reagan and here's richard nixon who thought he would have a stately walk to the nomination suddenly having to contend with this newcomer from california who he had met in 1947 when he was a young congressman. they have known each other for a long time and had correspondents in the year 1916s but by this time they are on opposite sides. as we found throughout the story would be friends and sometimes rivals before either of them reach the oval office. this is the picture most people at walter reed. ike house >> we have these partnerships with reagan and nixon. presidents of the same party often have a more complicated time getting alon

richard nixon is on the left and would meet herbert hoover at the grove. that summer than nixon was giving the big speech there about hoover when he really wanted to do was to meet with reagan because reagan by now is actively seeking the 1968 nomination. he is beginning to contest the primaries. he's beginning to pick up delegates. he's got the right wing of the republican party completely won over. he's got people like william f. buckley saying there is no one else to vote for in 1968 except ronald reagan here is nixon who thought he would have a stately walk. suddenly having to contend with this newcomer from california who he had met and just to go back in 1947 when he was an young congressman. they have known each other for a long time and they had corresponded through much of the early 1960's but by this time they are on opposite sides. as we found throughout the story, these men would be friends and sometimes rivals long before either of them would reach the oval office. and this is a picture that most people probably can't time, but right after nixo

>> herbert hoover. and al smith begins had this process of forging an urban, immigrant, catholic -- >> he also starts an uncomfortable conversation. it's not settled until 1960. that is can catholics be fully respected and integrated? there's openly anti-catholic enwin do used against smith. not used against kennedy. k kennedy dealt with this issue, but smith is the pioneer. he's the one who -- >> john kennedy ran against the ghost of al smith. >> the other reason al smith, besides the womanism charge, these are good times. and in terms of the series, we talk about the biography, the personalities. but it's really important to have the context of prosperity. it was good times. although there were these areas in especially farming, where folks in america weren't doing so well. >> we also know things about hoover that we didn't know then. al smith is running against a guy who is personally credited with saving millions of lives in europe after world war i. it's an eisenhower type thing. he's a heroic figu

with father's day coming on sunday, the white house put out an album of first fathers, including herbert hooverand junior. harry truman and daughter margaret. l.b.j. and grandson patrick getting his first hair cut. ronald reagan with son michael and grand kids cameron and ashley. and bill clinton with his daughter chelsea. we'll have a father whose face is not sofa mill war, but he has a great story on steve hartman's "on the road". a great story on steve hartman's "on the road". next. thanks to the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles, you'll want to get up and go. havputs you at 5 timesartbeat calgreater risk of stroke. don't wait. go to afibstroke.com for a free discussion guide to help you talk to your doctor about reducing your risk. that's afibstroke.com. ...more talk on social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. [ female announcer ] when it comes to the future of medicare and social security, you've earned the right to know. ♪ ...so what does it mean for you and your family? [ female announcer ] you've earned the facts. ♪

baffles my mind you think the president should be the first not the last but you wonder about herbert hoover. so how long is romney going to be able to avoid talking about his time as governor of massachusetts he i haven't i haven't i don't recall having heard him mention other than in passing i have executive experience i don't hear him do you know that's a good question one woman romney one with the real mitt romney stand up and talk about what he did as governor and what his track record was and why the people of massachusetts overwhelmingly support the president over him and not only that the republicans in massachusetts support ron paul over him in their convention seriously yeah i mean you don't even hear what happened this they don't want to tell me that they're at their state convention but ron paul like you know he did all the other state convention he came in and he starts like picking off delegates so he's picked up a good chunk but i don't have an exact number on the right now but he picked up a good chunk of mass to say is pro should be pro romney delegates that you know ron pau

dick morris was correct back in two thousand and eight the barack obama would become today's herbert hoover and the republican party would finish its comeback if they succeed then it will be a sad day for the united states a day when we all learn that america a major political party could commit treason could sabotage our economy could throw millions of americans out of their homes and out of work just for political gain and actually succeed let's hope they don't get away with it. that's it for the big picture tonight and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your cynics with. a mission of free accreditation free zones for charges free arrangement free. three stooges free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media and on to our teton tom. wealthy british science. writing. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. download the official anti application to i phone oh i pod touch from the i

last gasp of a dying era of governance, putting him in same ranks as john adams, john buchanan, herbert hoover, heralds of the end of an age. suppose the clash of the parties that's been described here could be diminished through process reforms i think takes optimism to a whole new level. and as i said a few moments ago in extemporaneous comments, i actually think that the thesis norm lays out ought to be taken more seriously. i think the problem of democratic stability has been taken too much for granted. and the prospects for instability have been too much banished from our mind from the great success of post-war democracies in europe. i think it's not impossible six years from now greece could be governed by a military government or spain could ask for help from nato in keeping order in its streets if its unemployment goes to 40% because of the gathering storm on the contine continent. our prospects aren't as dire as norm cleverly suggesting republicans might be extremist in the same way holocaust deniers are extremist. we're more stable than that. there's a prospect of the republican part

. >> democrats against herbert hoover for a generation. they'll run against george bush for another generation. neither one is going to be the ballot. the point is, they have to say that mitt romney somehow is dangerous in office and how they'll do that, is by saying he wants to dismantle the welfare state. he's an extremist. they'll have to broaden this beyond mitt romney's character. bain didn't work. >> listen, i think he's proposed $5 trillion of tax cuts, heavily aimed at high-income people. that's going to be the premise of what makes you think that that economy policy is going to work. it didn't work when they did it before. >> he wants the wealthy to pay the same share they're paying today? >> i know he's saying that. but it's literally impossible. if you look at his numbers, a cut of $5 trillion. abolish the state taxes, cut the top marginal rate from 35 to 25. the only loophole closings that he says that are going to pay for that, don't remotely come up to adding up to that. that's why if you're proposing gigantic tax cuts aimed

this grew out of the commerce department when uber -- herbert hoover. there was a entrepreneur who had a meeting with huger. they had a meeting together. motivation was during the 1920s. we had a historian referred to it as a golden age of african-american business activity in the united states. barnett made the point that the congress could help stimulate this by performing a special agency to deal with issues, and promote african-american entrepreneurship. when we talk about interests and support of negro affairs, it would continue through hoover. when hoover lost in 1932, it was continued in the fdr administration, and in fact, continued through truman. this division had bipartisan support. but again, when eisenhower came in, the division was discontinued. in fact, it really wasn't -- you know, you didn't have a clearly defined governmental agency aimed at african-american entrepreneurship. not until nixon established the minority business and a price of 1969. during the 1960s, while there was not a separate specific government agency to assist afric

what they are saying about jobs is basically the same thing that president herbert hoover was saying about jobs. that is all you have to do is cut government. cut government payrolls. cut government contractors. cut public budgets. this is the same tune they've been using. it's as wrong now as it was in 1929 and 1930. when you have so much of america in terms of industry and factories generally and store fronts and offices that are vacant, what you have to do is stimulate and boost the economy. that government payroll is very, very important because those people when they have money in their pockets and have jobs turn around and buy things. when they don't have money in their pocket, they don't buy things. that means there will be fewer jobs in the private sector. >> so, do you think the doing fine comment will damage the president or did he do enough to put this thing in context because they are trying to make hay out of this? >> we're in a kind of silly season. we're going into a silly season of politics. the republicans will say what they are going to say. i think the president wi

this grew out of the commerce department when herbert hoover, he headed the commerce department. and they grew out of a meeting between a prominent african-american entrepreneur by the name of clyde barnett, who had a meeting with hoover, contending that it would be in the commerce department's best interest to develop a special program, a special programming aimed at african-american entrepreneurship. barnett's motivation for this was essentially during the 1920s. we had a historian referred to as a golden age of african-american business activity in the united states. barnett made the point that the commerce department could help stimulate this by forming a special agency to deal with agencies and promote african-american entrepreneurship. when we talk about the support of this division of negro affairs, it was founded during a republican administration, under coolidge, they continue to hoover. when hoover lost in 1932, and his continued in the fdr administration. in fact, continued through truman. this division literally had bipartisan support. but again, when eisenhower came

of a dying era of government putting him in the same ranks as john adams, james buchanan, and herbert hoover as the end of an age. suppose that the class of the party could be diminished through process reforms. i think that takes optimism to a whole new level. i think that that basis that norm is taking seriously -- the problem democratic stability has been taken too much for granted. the prospect for instability happen to miss damaged by the great success of postwar democracy here and in europe. i think it is not impossible that six from -- six months from now greece would be governed by military government or spain could ask help from nato for military assistance. our prospects are not really as dire despite the suggestion that the republicans might be extremists in the same way that holocaust deniers were extremists. we are more stable than that but i think there is some prospect of the republican party breaking up a musket ball -- holds together for its principles. it could be cut out for the tea party. if that prospect comes along, norm will look back with was a warm feelings for john

a public meeting about the projects is being held right now at herbert hoover elementary school. >>> still ahead at 6:00, the proposed soda ban that is stirring up controversy. >>> also ahead, a plea for help. emotional comments from a bay area family today as they search for answers in oakland's latest homicide. >>> a victory for same-sex marriage supporters. the major federal ruling that happened today. >>> and after nine days of deliberation, jurors come back with a verdict in the john edwards corruption trial. we'll have reaction from both sides. >>> tonight a knowledgeable law enforcement source say it's unlikely that prosecutors will retry john edwards. >> after the judge declared a mistrial today, edwards had harsh words for himself and his own behavior. >> reporter: a win for john edwards and his campaign corruption trial. the jury finding him not guilty on one of six charges he face and deadlocked on the other five. the judge declared a mistrial and for now edwards is free again. >> thank goodness we live in a country that has the kind of system that we have. i think those j

the first example in modern history we might say was herbert hoover when he responded to the stock markety austerity and the great depression. east asia and thailand, indonesia. it was all the economy -- consequences of the economy going down. we know almost for certain what the outcome is going to be. >> is it only europe? let's turn to the federal budget. republicans control the house in calling for cuts to food aid, others also services while protecting funds for the pentagon. this was paul ryan. >> we say, let's get on growth and prevent austerity. the whole premise of the budget is to pre-empt austerity by getting our borrowing under control and preventing medicare and social security and medicare from going bankrupt rid that pre-empts austerity. the president, his budget puts us on a path toward european- like austerity. that is what we're trying to prevent from happening. >> that was paul ryan. your response? >> the good thing about what he said is austerity is fine, but getting a bad name. the question is, what are you proposing? he is proposing weakening the basic economic fiber.

as you know, a shard shift to the right, okay and they've taken sort of the politics of say, herbert hoover, and made it the new politics for our hard times moment. we're in this terrible economic slump, this persistent economic slump that doesn't go away and they have made the sort of 19th century banker view of the world, you know, the remedy for all that ails us, you know? it's an amazing accomplishment, what they've done. >> it is amazing. and they've got the money to do more of it. e.j. dionne, the working class voting against their own best interests. how you size it up? >> well, you know, i think the first role of democratic politics with a big or a small "d" is to pay respectful attention to people who did what they did. you heard it earlier, there were some people who thought a recall wasn't right. but there are real issues that progressives have to deal with because conservatives take advantage of them. one of them is the decline in confidence in government's capacity to improve people's lives. >> to do thing. >> right. >> and that's a real dagger pointed at the heart of progressi

truman and herbert hoover had become partners during truman's presidency once again against all odds. men were particularly keen about eisenhower yet. hoover went up to truman on the diaz at ike's swearing in, in '53 and said, i think we should start a president's club. truman said, you be the president. i'll be the secretary. that was kind of or shorthands but it turns out it's like a club. they talk about it like it's a club. each different president that comes along extends new membership privileges, whether it's, you know secret service or a pension or in the case of richard nixon in 1969, he created what every club needs, which is a club house. >> uh-huh. right across the street from the white house? correct? >> he did it pretty much to get lyndon johnson off of his back. johnson had repaired to the texas hill country in '69 and he kept calling and he wanted planes and cars and office space and an office place to stay and nixon said find him a place. get him something. they carved it out of an old townhouse and it's still in operation now 40 years later. >> they all had this cras

. >> suarez: on our website, we've collected photos of presidents together, from herbert hoover and harry the four living former presidents with the current commander-in-chief. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: a federal jury in north carolina found john edwards not guilty on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions to hide his mistress. the panel deadlocked on five more counts,and the judge declare a mistrial on those. the federal appeals court declared part of the defense of marriage act unconstitutional. the court said it discriminates against gay married couples by denying benefits granted to heterosexuals. online, it's science thursday. kwame holman has the details. kwame? >> holman: hari sreenivasan spoke with a louisiana resident whose coastal home is nearly uninhabitable due to rising sea levels, sinking land and storms. a preview of tomorrow's broadcast report is on our science page. also, find more details about chinese activist chen guangcheng's speech today in new york city. that's on our world page. all that and more is on our web site: newsh

mccain said instantly, herbert hoover. make of that what you will. [laughter] but there we are. he has a very strong connection. the cover of "newsweek" is actually about obama and lincoln. he has, a sense, with lincoln, that history is a mystery. and the idea that anything is magical, in the sense of if we say a few words or we do one thing, everything will be perfect. that is something that lincoln resisted, jackson resisted. i think what people -- what many great presidents have in common, is an appreciation of the tragedy of history. we are never going to work all this out. if you are a religious, perhaps, person, perhaps god will wipe all the tears from their eyes. but you are completely secular, i guess, it just is not -- there will be something. what lincoln understood and jackson understood, and i think what obama understands, and certainly, senator mccain understands, is that life in politics is not ever going to be perfect. the kingdom of god is not at hand. just because obama one. sorry. [laughter] >> i've been to college campuses recently, and some of the kids are pu

we try to -- that was herbert hoover's the losses they and things got worse and worse and worse. that can work if the economy is growing strongly when the companies fail because then there is other demand for workers. if the companies failed during a time of weakness, there is already excess workers. there is nobody who has any money to spend. that is why we need the government. in which theree are not plenty of workers out there to be hired. there is no demand. that's the problem. we need to get more spending going in the economy. then these start-ups can take root. the government needs a high roll during a recession. host: this is judy in florida and makes under $50,000. caller: my concern is why can we bring the jobs back caregiving the corporations a decent percentage rate compared to the other countries? i think most of the companies in the u.s. would love to be back manufacturing at home. why can we give them a 20% rate? we are paying more than any country in the world. i don't understand why everybody has this hate for companies. they employ people. people are so much bett

in fact, was in the coolidge administration, and this grew out of the commerce department when herbert hoover headed the commerce department. and it sort of grew out of a meeting between a prominent african-american entrepreneur by the name of clyde barnett who, you know, had a meeting with hoover contending that it would be in the commerce department's best interests to develop a special program, a special programming aimed at african-american entrepreneurship. and barnett's motivation for this was, essentially, during the 1-9d 20s we had -- 1920s we had and historians refer to it as a sort of golden age of african-american, you know, business activity in the united states. and barnett made the point that the commerce department could help stimulate this by forming a special agency to, you know, deal with issues or, in fact, to promote african-american entrepreneurship. interestingly enough, when we talk about, you know, interests and support of the division of negro affairs, it was founded during a republican administration, coolidge, continued through hoover. when hoover lost in 1932, it w

of the despair that had settled in on the country and that seemed to be undispelbl as long as herbert hoover was in the white house. every president, every successful candidate tells a story, and barack obama was one of the greatest story -- and by the way, when i say stories, i'm not weighing in at all on whether the stories are true or not. because there are certainly true stories. so when i say that barack obama spun a great story in the campaign of 2008, i don't mean to say that he was making this stuff up. but what he did was to convince voters or at least 53% of them that a vote for barack obama was a vote for a better vision of america. and it was, i've never seen in my observation of political candidates that goes back to john kennedy and my study of candidates goes back to george washington, i've never seen a better political candidate than barack obama. in large part because he was, well, he was a little bit like aaron burr in this respect, that he was able to allow voters, ordinary americans, to project on him their hopes for what the country could become. and so, you know, if the

. >> the last two that were businessmen were george bush and herbert hoover. the problem with the argument that romney is providing, it misunderstands the role of business. businesses do not exist to create jobs. they exist to create profit. and create profit sometimes by creating jobs, sometimes by losing jobs. >> i need to you say that again. this is what? >> businesses should not exist to create jobs. they exist to create profits. that's the fundamental misunderstanding of mitt romney's argument. >> absolutely to me that requires us, therefore, to have an argument about what xworchgo meant to do. >> the problem for running for ceo of the country, again, when are you the ceo, you work for your investors, for your shareholders, about maximizing return, and you don't get to say, well this group of people over here, they are not really helping us out in terms of gdp, let's get rid of them. in essence what we had when we put our chips on the idea that the markets can take care of everything, that if we just get government out of way, the private sector can fix a

and things of his grandparents had done which didn't turn out to have happened, from meeting herbert hooverolonial struggles, things his mother told him about his father to protect him. then there's a set of things where obama had retold his own story. it is very much about race, the subtitle is a story of race and he had rearranged things in his life and turned white characters black and emphasized race and one woman, a college acquaintance who was central to his politics who was swedish and made her black to kind of tell a very specific story. and i think it's a narrative device but it's really unusual situation which a politician has completely controlled with his own memoir so the revision is interesting. >> you talk about the conspiracy between the president and highest critic because he's ended up fueling the things conservatives fear most about him. >> in a lot of cases, somebody's political enemies, their instinct would be to debunk thinks but he makes himself look like a wilder kid. he says he used cocaine and nobody has proved that and may may be made up. the people going after hi

bring him in the same ranks as john adams and herbert hoover, as the end of an age.ow, suppose that the clash of the parties that has been described could be diminished or ameliorated through a process reform. i think it is -- it takes optimism to a whole new level. as i said a few moments ago, if you extemporaneous comments came through, and the thesis ought to be taken more seriously. i think that the problem of democratic stability has been taken too much for granted. and the prospects for instability have been too much banished from our minds by the postwar democracy in europe. i think it is not impossible but six months from now, the priest could be governed by a military government or that spain could ask for help from nato and keeping order in the streets if the employment goes to 40% because of the gathering storm on the continent. the prospects are not nearly as dire as said, they are more stable than that, but i think there is some prospect of the republican party breaking of the unless it holds together for the principal. otherwise it will be cut up by the

herbert hoover in 1928, he didn't get it, he was a money guy, market guy, fix it guy like obama.was going to do great things and he knew like i said, fdr -- >> joe biden gets it. >> joe biden gets it. joe biden gets it. >> talking about optimism or talking about the notion of the american exceptionalism. >> there's nothing wrong with careful optimism, which optimism with -- >> talking about -- talking about optimism. >> serious challenges. >> we're talking about -- >> nothing wrong with that. being self-aware. if we're exceptional we can be that. >> we're talking about the optimism to be ike, and to know that you got 18 and 19-year-old kids that are going to be able to scale the cliffs of omaha beach and run into the heart of france and kick the hell out of hitler. >> except we can't do that right now. >> yes, we can. >> we're too fat. i'm serious. we're -- >> you know what, mika, nobody has ever -- nobody has ever been more wrong, nobody has ever been more wrong than you are right now. >> storming beaches, we're too fat. you know what, you know what we're going to do? we're goin

we try to -- that was herbert hoover's the losses they and things got worse and worse and worse. that can work if the economy is growing strongly when the companies fail because then there is other demand for workers. if the companies failed during a time of weakness, there is already excess workers. there is nobody who has any money to spend. that is why we need the government. there's no sense in which there are not plenty of workers out there to be hired. there is no demand. that's the problem. we need to get more spending going in the economy. then these start-ups can take root. the government needs a high roll during a recession. host: this is judy in florida and makes under $50,000. caller: my concern is why can we bring the jobs back caregiving the corporations a decent percentage rate compared to the other countries? i think most of the companies in the u.s. would love to be back manufacturing at home. why can we give them a 20% rate? we are paying more than any country in the world. everybodyderstand why has this hate for companies. they employ people. people are so much

they started singing it but it wasn't until 1931, herbert hooker is the one who sign -- herbert hooverigned a declaration making it a national declaration. it ranges two octaves, most people can only do one octave. bombs bursting in air, rockets red glare. a lot of national anthems are that way. a lot of military jargon. there's only one phrase, the land of the free which is kind of nice and the home of the brave. i don't know. >> i get that part of it. >> bill: are we only the -- the only ones that are brave? i'm embarrassed every time i hear it. the reason it came to mind today, why today? i'll tell you. because very interesting that "60 minutes" and "vanity fair," what a team, did a recent poll about all kinds of issues and one of the issues they asked americans was who should compose the -- be asked to compose the new national anthem which, of course, assumes that most americans want a new national anthem which i think is the case right? if they've ever heard it. who hasn't. so what are the possibilities? they used to sing hail columbia before the star-spangled banner. then there i