herbert hoover's campaign for the president to thought on way that night. the next day the hoover distributes to the country is safer that would be employed for political communication. some people one thing, some people another and kind of hedging bets with himself. he wasn't sure yet that he was in the race, but he's getting things into motion. disintegrates at typical day you have to be careful what you say publicly and you have another agenda private key. you get the sense was hoover that he had traveled steadily and online before he could than to these larger scenes of action. what i found, to his having made it to the white house, his sense of internal conflict continued to bedevil kluger and it was not just internal. in other words, people could see it. they were surprised at this. they've always been a super executive and a man of quick decision and firm conviction. once he was in the white house, that seemed to dissipate. it was confusing to the lack or at and people around him. .. it seemed to me that he had lost his political charm if i might call

first on herbert hoover and on woodrow wilson. hoover was secretary of commerce and 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. 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 awe. he

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. questions. we have herbert hoover on the in the presidency by that point. 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

[applause] so herbert hoover was not the most scintillating speaker in the world. only a very good speaker, but a radio.ilizer of this franklin roosevelt talking to a crowd. you will notice in each one of these shots, there is a microphone from one of the radio networks. this speech is going up to the nation. cameraslmed by these using israel's, seen a movie reals,-- using news seeing a movie houses across the country. this was a way that a candidate and not done before. >> but to win, to restore america to its own people. >> letter can be no possible misunderstanding. let me read the provisions of the democratic platform at this point. and let me add that it's in plain english. repeal of the 18th amendment. >> when roosevelt gets into the white house -- have you heard the far side chats? he was not sitting by the fireside, he was sitting by a bank of cameras. reading a speech that had been written for him. the special gift roosevelt have was that not only was he good at , but theg a speech speeches were written in a conversational way. it was unlike almost any pol

i will play a little clip so you can hear herbert hoover's voice. >> places on me the responsibilities. i support the work of reconstruction. long before another four years have passed, i want to see peace in every american home. the sunshine of genuine progress and genuine prosperity. fundamental principles on which our nation was founded in has grown. theall invite and welcome help of every man and woman in the united states. this is my pledge to the nation and my pledge to almighty god. [applause] mann: glover was not the most scintillating speaker in the world. he was beat by this guy who is a good utilizer of the new medium of radio. harris and clinton was about. roosevelt.franklin here is a microphone from nbc. the speech is going out to the nation. being filmed by these cameras that are going to be used in newsreels in will be houses around the country. primarily roosevelt is using the radio to communicate with the american people in a way that presidential candidates had never report done. -- had never before done. >> a political campaign. give me your help not to win but -- in

on the western front a progressive republican republican, served taft as secretary of war and herbert hoover as secretary of state . he told his listeners the country faced probably the greatest crisis of its history threading the world based upon what and justice instead of force. that seems like a quaint notion knobs. with china and southeast asia, the world was divided between fundamentally opposing camps that the world cannot permanently into were but it should pretend fall been our men would soon be fighting for our own lives on american soil the nation when he declared faced emergency that it was ill-prepared and was prevented from facing with the neutrality laws expressly designed by congress in the thirties to keep the nation whiff from being drawn into foreign conflict. by la the government could not even do friendly belligerence all goods sold by american manufacturers had to be paid for in full and in cash american ships were forbidden from carrying purchase weapons and munitions to the war zones and the citizens were prohibited for providing support to any nation at war. in effec

he had been an internationalist, just like herbert hoover or william howard taft had been identified with the league of nations. what i'm really raising and asking you to comment on is how problematic it is to use broad concepts that might be applied in very different contexts with very different meanings. the professor raise this larger point, in addition to thinking about teaching, we have to use our words for something. walking that line of using a kind of shorthand that might have a more general understanding and yet also kind of keeping our hat to various experts offstage to signal that contested, can be a very difficult line to navigate. we are among friends here, but in writing, that follows you around forever. if you have thoughts on that, wilson folks, that would be cool to hear. >> we just heard a very eloquent endorsement of two of my favorite things, namely very clear writing. and finishing my most recent manuscript, i'm constantly battling with the copy editor. i can't cut here because this has to be here, pragmatist internationalism, because i defined it using these exa

yeah, it's herbert hoover and he's holding a halloween mask or some mask of young tom dewey.the message here is that behind the mask, behind the mask, of tom thumb double-talk dewey and his hitler mustache stand hog-jowled heartless hoover. every labor union wrecker, ku kluxer, negro hater, radio rat, ghoulish war profiteer, if you're screwy vote for dewey. so pretty intense. republicans will respond with this whole, we want you fdr to finish the job. you're indispensable. republicans will ask in this cartoon, on what meat does this our great caesar feed? and he's in a fourth term toga here and carving up indispensability baloney. so the republicans fight back a little bit here. here's another democratic cartoon which is implying that the japanese and the germans are wanting dewey and republican victory holding up signs, don't vote for roosevelt. please, don't vote for roosevelt. here's another republican one. roosevelt is indispensable to communism. we demand his election. and you have here sidney hillman depicted. sidney hillman was a central part of the fall campaign in 19

he is a product of tammany and he gets whooped by herbert hoover for a note in their of other reasons. harry truman is the product of the pendergast machine in kansas city. he is the head of the county government. they steal millions and millions of dollars. harry truman never takes a time. he has to kind of wink at what goes on in some cases. yes to get things done. he would sit down. he would sit down and pour out his soul in private letters which he never sent to anyone. he would hole up in these motels and right these letters that were found decades after his death and he would wrestle with these questions cover. am i a public servant or am i a crook? am i doing the right thing? he is conflicted by this but he stays in this machine and he is determined to get out of local government. he wants to be a congressman. but he is such a puppet, he is such a nobody even at that time that is like no hairy, you cannot be a congressman. can i be governor? no, you can't be governor. when the machine can find anyone to run the united states senate in 1934, ok. we now return to our regularly-sc

herbert hoover who i hope is watching, and to that -- that great american and his wife general and mrsy, and to all of my fellow republicans here assembled and americans across this great nation, from this moment united and determined, we will go forward together, dedicated to the ultimate and undeniable greatness of the whole man. together -- together we will win. i accept your nomination with a deep sense of humility. i accept too the responsibility that goes with it, and i seek your continued help and your continued guidance. my fellow republicans, our cause is too great for any man to feel worthy of it. our task would be too great for me man, did he not have with him the hearts and the hands of this great republican party. and i promise you tonight that every fiber of my being is concentrated to our cause that nothing shall be lacking from the struggle that can be brought to it by enthusiasm, by devotion and plain hard work. in this world, no person, no party can guarantee anything. but what we can do and what we shall do is to deserve victory and victory will be ours. the good lor

the entire world because of who herbert hoover did with smooth and the tariffs and protectism he had. overall wall street likes certainty and there's not much granularity with donald trump. i think hillary clinton actually gets a little bit of the nod here. >> if i were a liberal -- >> i'm voting for gary johnson. i don't like either one. >> if i were a liberal i would be offended because you're saying hillary clinton, a woman, potential first female president of the united states, should run on her husband's record. don't you think she should be running on her own ideas. >> she was there and associated with it. that is not a feminist statement whatsoever. if you know who my wife is, quality of wall street for a long time and done a lot more i promise that you or anybody else has for women's quality on wall street. she should run on bill clinton's record more than against bernie sanders' moving to the left. >> she's running almost as a neo socialist, gary b. smith. and one thing that if you look at these plans, one thing her biggest expenditure is the paid family lead. which essential

and in 1930, he was re-elected by a landslide. 1930, president herbert hoover appointed hughes chief justice of the united states. so you can see they are beginning to come together. of course, by 1930, there was great talk of roosevelt as the democratic nominee for president in 1932. so in 1932, of course, he campaigned against hoover and beat him very badly. and in 1933, march of 1933, franklin roosevelt and charles evans hughes exchanged letters. and franklin roosevelt wanted to know if he could recite the entire oath, not just saying "i do." and in asking hughes if that was okay, he remarked that it was very interesting he thought that one former new york governor would be administering the oath to another new york governor and they each expressed great respect for each other and look forward to their association said hughes in a common enterprise. so roosevelt is inaugurated president in 1933. by this time hughes had made a very strong record as a civil rights and libertarian. he wrote some very important decisions protecting the freedom of the press for example. and freedom of

act which he signed the national archives ofinisters the network presidential libraries from herbert hooverurnment w. librariesresidential with a total of more than 780 million pages of textual materials and almost 700,000 .rtifacts the presidential libraries are not libraries in the usual sense. and museumshives bringing together the documents and artifacts of a president, and hisnistration, family. and presenting them to the public for study afternoon -- and discussion without regard for political considerations or affiliations. intent from the beginning was to have presidential libraries located throughout the andtry where scholars school children could learn about their government, the service in and government. in dedicating his own library, created roosevelt, who the national archives and the presidential library system, of thed the essence mission. to bring together the records of the past and to house them in where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation in three things: it must believe in the past, it future, ite in the must, above all, believe i

the national archives administers the network of presidential libraries from herbert hoover to george13 residential libraries with a total of 700 million pages, 780 million pages of textual material and 700,000 artifacts. the presidential libraries are not libraries in the usual sense. archives and museums bringing together the artifacts of a president and discussion without regard for political consideration or affiliation. the intent from the beginning was to have presidential libraries located throughout the country for scholars to learn about their government, the presidency and service in the government. in dedicating his own library, franklin roosevelt, who created the presidential library system, captured the essence of the mission to bring together the records of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future. a nation must believe in three things. the past, the future, it must above all believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future

herbert hoover is probably that. bush did well domestically as president, no child left behind has been a valuable contribution to the educational program particularly children from disadvantaged families. the amendment of medicare to provide prescription drugs to seniors, remarkable achievement, bush also took the lead in the global fight against aids, particularly in africa and under his leadership the disease to some degree was brought under control. bush remains active in the fight, also expanded american free trade and had free trade agreements with israel, canada and mexico and 16 countries, bush also concluded an agreement with larry boudin in his early term to reduce a nuclear arsenal each country maintains and improved relations with china. bush's most important achievement was to contain the economic meltdown in 2008. against all of his instincts, and deeply held belief he bailed out wall street and the american auto industry and avoided another great depression. unlike the war in iraq, the fight against te

herbert hoover probably has a lock on that. he did well domestically as president, no child left behind has been a valuable contribution to the educational program, particularly for children from disadvantaged family. the medicare to provide prescription drugs for seniors is a remarkable achievement. bush also took the lead in the global fight against aids, particularly in africa and under his leadership it has to some degree been brought under control. bush remains active in the fight, he also also expanded american free trade when bush took office, we had free trade agreements with canada and mexico and a now has free trade agreements with 16 countries. he also included on an agreement in his early term to reduce nuclear arsenal that each country maintained and he and improved relations with china. i think is most important achievement, however was to contain the economic meltdown in 2008. against all of his instincts and deeply held beliefs he bailed out wall street and the american auto industry and avoided another great de

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 impa 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? >> i

president was richard nixon who served in the pacific, the governor general of the philippines, herbert hoover had been a businessman in china, muttering around the white house, john f. kennedy served in the pacific and so forth and many of the initiatives that have come to prominence began in the case of the defense realignment, but broadly speaking in a historical context what president obama has done is build on a set of broad policies started many decades earlier. every president since richard nixon has built around engagement with china and that hasn't changed. every president since reagan has complemented that, and the favorable balance of power and content with an increasingly confident and recently assertive china. for the clinton administration building of the alliance, the bush administration, an official in the nsc, building on top of that partnership with india, president obama, strategically in the southeast asia piece, building along those lines. let me focus on that. of the closely at the pivot, the most significant legacy for the president is engagement of southeast asia. presi

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former president herbert hoover would certainly have been in that camp as well. dewey -- one of the things was to watch him become a committed internationalist and a champion of bipartisan foreign policy. >> given that, what is the impact of that attitude on all of his presidential bids? >> well, obviously he didn't win in the presidency. in 1944 there was a significant conflict between dewey and fdr even though they disagreed with the united nations and specifically would the united nations have an erm that it could -- employ without first securing the position of member states like united states. and roosevelt said yes he supported that. dewey was not supportive of that and dewey said later on roosevelt won the election and history has proven i was right. >> you talk about the divide in the republican party over international issues. do they come back together in time for the '48 campaign? do the taft and dewey wings come together? >> it was pained over. but in fact it was very shrewd on truman's part to see that as the achilles heel that republican unit was un

maybe fdr versus herbert hoover in 1932. i mean this is a huge -- this is a bigger choice than reagan versus carter in 1980. >> i get the list. look how profoundly different they are on the issue of supreme court justices. look how profoundly different they are. one wants amnesty and no immigration laws for the most part whatsoever, and one's going to build a wall. one is going to increase refugees 550%, and one is going to make sure we can vet them properly so what happened in belgium and france doesn't happen here. school choice, send it back to the states. obamacare, eliminate health care savings accounts. radical islam, even acknowledging it for crying out loud. there's such a profound difference. i just wonder, you know, where the public is on this. in other words, i heard a lot of cliches and platitudes at the democratic convention and i heard a lot of reality at the republican convention. >> look, i think what you've got right now -- and you saw a bounce for trump after his convention, then washed away by a bounce for

until another cataclysmic event, the great depression and their party gets the blame for it, herbert hoover, so the next tide turning president is franklin roosevelt. in this whole period no democrat wins a majority. woodrow wilson, grover cleveland they don't win a majority and republicans are winning landslides many of them in this era, but the great depression and now we have franklin roosevelt as the next tide turning president who wins and wins again and wins again and wins again, hands off power to his wing man, harry truman. and that's really the dominant coalition until vietnam and just the chaos of the 1960s, sort of tears apart that coalition, which has become the great society, in the late 1960s, and really ronald reagan eventually is the next really genuinely tide turning president who won, won reelection, won a third term called h.w., his handing off power because now he can't return for a third term, he is term limited and until now we have been living basically in the era of reagan. those are the tide turning

herbert hoover. your next tided-turning president is franklin roosevelt. in this whole period no democrat wins the majority. woodrow wilson doesn't win the majority. grover cleveland doesn't win a majority. the republicans are winning landslides, many of them, in this era. the great depression, and now we have franklin roosevelt as the next tide-turning president. wins. wins again. wins again. hands off power to his wing man, harry truman. then -- that's really it. the dominant coalition until vietnam and just the chaos of the 1960s sort of tears apart that coalition. it's become the great society. 19 -- late 1960s. and really ronald reagan eventually is the next really genuinely tide-turning president who won, won re-election, won a third term called h.w. you know, his handing off power. now he can't run for a third term. he is term-limited. until now we've been living basically in the era of reagan. those are the tide-turning presidents. washington and jefferson and lincoln and f.d.r. and reagan and if if -- this is the choice that's before us, my fellow

in 1928 we hosted another convention, a republican convention that nominated herbert hoover. he was pre-successful in the general election. -- won in a landslide a landslide. there were humorous comments, musty by democrats -- mostly by --ocrats, about the previous kansas city has a background in this. i also wanted to mention one other fact about kansas city's background. mentioned, the convention held is in kemper arena. withmay be a coincidence my name. in fact kemper arena was funded of my fathergift and great-grandfather's charitable trust in order to save the american royal. and then the first major event that was held after that was the republican national convention. he welcomed everyone. i've been at one national convention, the 1964 convention. i was a 15 year old honorary assistant at arms. -- assistant of arms. i didn't get to the 1976 convention because i was in italy on my honeymoon. but i did get to read about it in italian. i wanted to ask steve winn about the background of this 1976 -- the last time we had a truly contested convention. president ford was the

was chief of staff with herbert hoover and stayed on in the position for franklin roosevelt. 1935, goes to the philippines as military advisor. recalled in the united states. what will he do? he is still relatively young. he does not want to go back to being a port commander. resigns from the army, stays on in the philippines as philip marshall of the philippines army. he is basically recalled to duty 75 years ago this month in the philippines to be commander of u.s. forces in mubarak east. december 7, december 8 in manila time, 1941. macarthur is awoken in the morning by who is a perl harbor. we look at him as a military commander. he is simply overwhelmed. as most commanders on the american side by the speed and complexity with which the japanese bring the attack against the philippines and quite frankly, across all of the pacific. it is not surprising that to when we look at and i will give you just three examples of what i think are perhaps his biggest defeat and then three examples of his biggest victories. it is no surprise when we look at that list of big defeats that we start wi

until another cataclysmic event, the great depression and their party gets the blame for it, herbert hoover, so the next tide turning president is franklin roosevelt. in this whole period no democrat wins a majority. woodrow wilson, grover cleveland they don't win a majority and republicans are winning landslides many of them in this era, but the great depression and now we have franklin roosevelt as the next tide turning president who wins and wins again and wins again and wins again, hands off power to his wing man, harry truman. and that's really the dominant coalition until vietnam and just the chaos of the 1960s, sort of tears apart that coalition, which has become the great society, in the late 1960s, and really ronald reagan eventually is the next really genuinely tide turning president who won, won reelection, won a third term called h.w., his handing off power because now he can't return for a third term, he is term limited and until now we have been living basically in the era of reagan. those are the tide turning presidents, washington and jefferson and lipgen and fdr and reagan,

and then in 1928, we hosted another convention, a republican convention, that nominated herbert hoover. now, he was pretty successful in the general election, he won in a landslide, in fact. but the next four years were terribly not successful, the great depression. in 1976, there were humorous comments, mostly by democrats, about the previous republican convention in kansas city and the nomination of president ford was hoped by the ford folks. so kansas city has a background in this. i also want to mention one other fact before i go to the panel about kansas city's background. as audrey mentioned, the convention held is in kemper arena. that might seem there is a coincidence with my name. in fact kemper arena was funded , in part by a gift from my father out of my great-grandfather's charitable trust in order to save the american royal. and in the first major event held after that, as will happen, was the republican national convention. and he did, as audrey said, he welcomed everyone. i've been at one national convention, the 1964 convention. i was a 13-year-old honorary assistant se

presidents and we have a progressive president in theodore roosevelt and in woodrow wilson and then herbert hoover and franklin roosevelt. so the court was increasingly progressive. so seemingly something happened that caused some of the justices to rethink their views and the something that happened was the republicans took control of congress in 1946. and once the republicans took control of congress in 1946 the idea of judicial restraint started not to seem like such a wonderful idea anymore. so that the idea that no matter what congress would do we would defer to it. some of the justices started to have second thoughts about this and an interesting article was written in "fortune" magazine by arthur schlesinger jr., a new deal progressive historian, harvard man. he writes this story and he divides the court up into two contending groups. first group he calls the lions of self-restraint. they are frankfurter and the others. and the other group he calls judicial activists. the first time we know that the term judicial activism was used in the article by schlesinger jr. it was associated with the

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presidents, and we have a progressive president in theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson and herbert hoover and finally in franklin roosevelt, four progressive presidents, appointing justices, so the court became increasingly progre progressive. by the time it adhered to the doctrine of judicial restraint, seemingly, something happened that caused some of the justices to rethink their views. and something that happened was the republicans took control of congress in 1946. and once the republicans took control of congress in 1946, the idea of judicial restraint started not to seem like such a wonderful idea anymore, so the idea that no matter what congress would do, we would refer to it. some justices started to have second thoughts about this. a very, very interesting article was written in fortune magazine about this development by a historian named arthur schlessinger jr., very famous new deal progressive historian, harvard man, good harvard man. and he writes this story and he divides the court up into two contending groups. the first group he calls the lions of self-restraint. and they