a personal memoir by herbert hoover. woodrow wilson led america to victory in the war that was rightly called the great war, the first world war, the greatest the united states had ever fought. simultaneously woodrow wilson fought another great war, the greatest ever waged against hunger and famine and disease. in this crusade his commander was herbert hoover who was also high in the councils that set the conduct of the war itself. the french people idolized woodrow wilson. he was the hope of the war wary masses of all europe. but when he left france for his own country, for washington, he found a hostile element in the u.s. senate that bitterly opposed his idea for a league of nations. woodrow wilson then set out across the country in a valorous attempt to rally the american people to his shining visions. the abolition of war from the earth forever. what happened during his years of ordeal? what happened to the man himself? the tragic story of the 28th president of the united states, a democrat, is told now in a unique

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one of the new faces of government, herbert hoover, organizer of worldwide relief for belgium in 1915d program at home. battalions of volunteers work farms and plant gardens to help feed the nation and the allies. for housewives, the watch words are save food. the public translates it into hooverized. out in the field were women and youngsters and the slogan is do a man's ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> love may not change, but motherhood will never be the same after this war. america's women taking on a man's job work up new arguments to support their demands for the vote, demands that will be fulfilled in a constitutional amendment after the war. how are you going to keep them out of the voting booth after they've helped win the war? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> along with its heroes and heroines, the war effort produces new villains. this scene takes place in birmingham, alabama. a slacker driven out of town by his neighbors, with the draft strictly policed, the penalties of being a slacker are severe. slogans grow into passions, a hatred of all things german. a harvard professor finds in music the traits of war, lust and

herbert hoover was the first president who had an assistant at the white house are dealt with journalists occasionally. up until eisenhower, which is in my lifetime, you could not quote the president directly from a press conference. presidents would have press conferences, but you heading information. that's where the convention of quoting senior white house officials or administration spokesman came from, which still exists. the presidents and journalists, politicians and journalists across that operate across purposes. there is a natural conflict between them. they have a different function. toview is all presidents some degree dislike and distrust the press. some are a little more skilled at disguising up and others. host: what presidents have really navigated that divide well? was a franklin roosevelt spectacular example of that. he had 998 press conferences as president. schmoozing good at the press. he would tell them, i like you guys. there was more political diversity among newspapers. i like you guys, but it is your publishers and so on that don't like me. kennedy, when he was r

. -- herbert hoover. this is a very poignant reminder of the skill of human suffering -- of this scale of human suffering in the year 1932 when frank and roosevelt was running for president. the 1932 democratic convention was held in chicago, and when roosevelt was nominated, he received word of the nomination in albany. then he did something really unprecedented and quite dramatic. he actually threw out to the convention to accept the nomination in person. up to that point, when american presidential candidates received a nomination of their party, they would receive the delegation formally at their home, or at a political site in their home state, but they did not go to the convention, and they did not deliver a speech at the convention. well, roosevelt broke with that tradition in a dramatic way. he is delivering his acceptance speech at the convention, and an electrifying moment and political history. it is this speech were he first uses the expression "a new deal." roosevelt i pledge : myself to a ne

herbert hoover came out of retirement and wrote the civil service act. they'd did a lot of good things -- they did a lot of good things. george and i have been blessed because we were young. you can serve eight years of president and do other good things. >> i assume you would recommend a job to people if they want to be president. john kennedy was asked, what do you think about this job and would you recommend it, he said not to others right now because i would wait until i finish my tenure. would you recommend a job to young leaders? would you say it is worth the aggravation and hard work, or would you recommend a pursue something else? former president clinton: in a heartbeat. former president bush: same. there is a good chance we are looking at a future president here. [applause] >> u.n. recommend -- you would recommend it and saying president of the united states is better than private equity? former president bush: we make 200,000 year in pension, what do you make? [laughter] former president clinton: if we could say one serious thing, there are it

election, mahoney county and trumbull county put their faith in donald trump, the first republican, herbert hoovert for hillary clinton, 49%. rob: you will see a lot of red in ohio which donald trump won and check out mahoney county where youngstown is. one of the blues is that you see. interesting he decided to go there, one of the most critical states if you are going to win an election, you have to win ohio. especially if you are a republican. tell me about how these areas have changed in the last 30 years? >> we have seen significant economic decline since the 1970s, when we have seen is a steady decline, loss in jobs and a community that feels they are left behind, one of the reason in this community and eastern ohio, and to shake things up, investing in democrats and have been let down. donald trump has won the election, what has he done? the currency manipulator, they are closed in 2017. he is coming -- >> in those areas, those are the reasons people in my community voted for donald trump. obviously could be a huge event, 20,000 people signed up to go to a venue that seats 7000 so the quest

and a lot of the world defends into an economic depression and as a result of that president herbert hoover issues and instruction to the state department to deny immigration visas to anyone who would likely become a public charge. anyone who they perceive would at any point need any sort of assistance from the united states once they immigrated. so if you did not have an indefinite stream of income, you are no longer eligible for a visa. immigration numbers drop significantly. in march 1933, roosevelt takes the oath of office and he promises his countrymen in his inauguration speech that the only thing they have to fear is fear it self. for americans looking around at that time, that will ring hollow. 25% unemployment, great racial strife in this country, seeing a europe descending into chaos they want no part of. roosevelt is also more concerned about the economic depression than he is about germany. in 1937, a new economic recession brings unemployment back up to 90%, -- 19%, even after the new deal program. spanish civil war, italian invasion of ethiopia, all of this tells americans we

before he was president, herbert hoover helped broker a deal to help jumpstart the project, engineerscontrol the rivers of colorado, at the time of its completion, it was the largest dam in all of the world. it is as tall as a 60 story building, and 45 beats thick at one point, helped contribute to the development of major cities. work began on a project that changed the u.s. forever, 87 years ago. today. >> news break out, breaking news changes everything on fox news channel. have great weekend. >> president president a trumpet and a russian president vladimir putin meeting face to face for the first time, russian meddling, all aggress, we have the very latest on this. breaking out for a second day at the g20. what exactly are they trying to prove? welcome, everyone, i am in for neil cavuto. we have fox coverage with john roberts on the meeting, and tracking protesters, let's begin with john. high, john. >> hey, good afternoon, typically at these summits,

franklin delnor roosevelt wouldn't allow herbert hoover's name on what was called the boulder nam.sh had the anything but clinton policy. and ronald reagan removed those so lar panels from the white house jimmy carter had installed. but presidential historian says those changes pale in comparison to what trump is doing. >> trump is trying to score point after point with his base by anything that obama signed or did or said or had his name attached to. donald trump wants to kind of erase it from history. >> the question going forward, can trump create a legacy of his own beyond destroying that of his predecessor? >> and jason carol, thank you very that reporting. coming up, how much tv does president trump watch every day? you might be surprised to find out. plus, how it reflects his long-standing focus on his own image. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary. (phone ringing) what? keep going! yeah... (laughs) (voi

but franklin roosevelt attacked herbert hoover for 12 years.e do tend to do that. >> president obama went after george w. bush for -- >> and this president attacks -- by the way, i don't think that's so terrible. he's going to try to drag hillary into it. that's not a -- as a hillary supporter, that's not a concern that i have. it's more this -- it's kristen saying, a red dress is yellow. there's a monty python sketch where graham chapman says there is no cannibalism in the british navy. and by no, i mean there's a certain amount. first, right, there was absolutely no -- russia didn't hack. it was a 400-pound guy on his bed, right? then, well, russia hacked but we had no contacts. we saw them saying. okay, well, there were meeting, contacts, but no collusion. now there's evidence of collusion in this meeting with donald trump and their message is, cnn sucks, not here's what we're doing to protect america. >> and the president says, actually, anybody would take this meeting. so now, we just watched all these people say, what? the shock and horro

herbert hoover. why? cause out smith, the democratic smith,te -- because how the democratic candidate, was a catholic, and many evangelicals did not want to vote for a catholic. but many were alarmed by the inroads hoover had made in the southern vote and his lurid book was a warning of what might happen if southerners turned to the republican party. well, then the civil rights revolution took place. the pillars of the old view fell to the ground. you could no longer argue that black people were inherently incapable of taking part in political democracy. and the historians completely revised their view of the period. today, i would say most historians see reconstruction as a noble, if unsuccessful, effort to establish for the first time in american history and interracial democracy, a democracy with the participation of african-americans and whites at the same time, which had never existed in the united states before the civil war. if reconstruction was tragic, we now would say it was not because it attem

time between a period where you can see the passage of the radioactive 1930 which that state is herbert hoover becomes a federal regulation of electronic communications media and the repeal of the fairness doctrine in 1987 which you say in the book was warranted, at least at that time as an intelligent policy decision and should not be revisited. you have in this country nothing of it i call universal media, you have everybody listen to the radio to just a few stations. everybody went to the movies, daily movie attendance, 1930 america had 130 million, 123 million people, average weekly movie attendance was 100 million, every week. >> that's a universal medium. television in the 1950s and 60s, incidentally, president reagan and one of the reasons for his political success his witty political career entirely in all three of those media, radio, movies and television.he embodied and spoke naturally the language of universal media, common national values of movies, those things that us and provided a common language. that's the technology has clearly changed that but prior to 1930, we were living

barack obama was the first president since herbert hoover to the -- never once hit 3% gdp growth. george w. bush was just about as bad. the 1980's and 1990's, job growth in america averaged 1.9% per year. since 2000 we have been averaging about .5% per year. calledon-adjusted, has -- household incomes are lower than they were in 2000. from the bad results current regime. something needs to change. the second thing is, the is liberal cities have benefited from deliberate government policies, especially around globalization. the sociologist that wrote the book "the global city" is leading international theorists on inner -- cities. she talks about the flat world affect. she pointed out that it is a lot more complex to do business in countries all over the world than just one country. this supply chain all over the world created demands for new forms of complex financial producer services and things like international currency, international contract law, international accounting and marketing. these require highly specialized skills to produce that he could not get in any cities. pe

the greatest anti-imperialist president united states ever had was herbert hoover. hoover takes a bad rap in history because of his response to the depression, but he was a true humanitarian who had lived in about a dozen different countries and follow world very much from the perspective of non-americans. that was a moment when the united states began withdrawing troops from foreign wars. i counted at least six countries where american companies can do president -- came to the white house and said that a problem with the government and the country in with the u.s. government please intervene, and president hoover said no. he will never be the job of the u.s. government to intervene in a dispute between an american company in a foreign government. imagine a president saying that today. [laughter] based on the experience of world war i. i think this is another intervention that was right for re-examining -- ripe for re-examination. it is truly the founding tragedy of our age. without world war i there is no er, notknow hitl holocaust, doubles and is him. -- no bolshev