his biography at hoover and also in the to interview you can imagine this is a day house that herbert hoover historically or in the present day talked about often so in the introduction to his book he says indictment and advocacy shape and overwhelm the story of the man of herbert hoover. because franklin and eleanor roosevelt lived here in new york during the 1932 campaign. and then you might have heard them interpret them. we met earlier in the franklin and eleanor roosevelt library which is where they met with prospective cabinet members after the 32 election. we were talking about what they were doing. so as the reviews had said that it was the intensely researched thoughtful resurrection of a brilliant man. we are curious of his interpretation with his role in the great depression. one of the wonderful things that amity also brings a different perspective applause for her. [applause] but one thing that she wrote in 2009 that like no other president roosevelt inspired those in despair that the economist worthy of emulation we are happy to bring that perspective to you and have her here a

in one letter, herbert hoover says, i have wilson here. he is going to dig this new mine and he is going to dig it in record time. and if he doesn't, he is going to be back in the u.s. so fast and so poor he won't know where to eat. and that is how hoover dealt with his friends. there were reports of him in china, in negotiations to buy mining properties with a gun in his hand waving it around, threatening to shoot whoever would not help him get his way. he was, he was a pretty ruthless character as a businessman. the interesting thing about him though is, that, while he was, this is a comment to a lot of the robber barons. while they were doing their corporate depredations, they were also doing some good in the world. hoover, while, he was going around making it, making his fortune, he was also supporting back in california a lot of people. fellow students and family members. he was paying the salary of the librarian in stanford. he was donating rare books and jesuit publications he picked up in china to stanford. most remarkably, there w

which was founded by herbert hoover in 1919, as a matter of fact. should know that the president's essay written by dr. fulmer at the heritage foundation is going to be on mr. hoover, herbert hoover, out in another month or so. so i've been helping doing some research and learning so much about herbert hoover, who was a mosts a admirable man but unfortunate was saddled with the idea he was personally responsible somehow for the great depression. that's not the case. ladies and gentlemen, what i've tried to do with this book is to look back, particularly at some of the thing i've written and the people whom i've known, and if you think about it, there are really giants, conservative giants, who walked the earth in the last half of the 19th 19th century -- the 20th 20th century. those giants were in my opinion, ronald reagan, barry goldwater and bill buckley. and as a matter of fact, i wrote biographs of all three of them. studied them and so trying to sort of sumup what do they have in common? well, they consider charismatic leaders who could inspire

many of them were nicknamed hoovervilles after the sitting president herbert hoover. people are living in this shanty town in the very shadow of the metropolitan museum of art, which you can see in the background. this is a very poignant reminder of the scale of human suffering in the year 1932 when franklin roosevelt is running for president. the 1932 democratic convention was held in chicago, and when ro roosevelt was nominated, he received word of the nomination in albany and he did something unprecedented in american politics and quite dramatic. he actually flew out to the convention to accept the nomination in person. up until that point, when american presidential candidates received the nomination of their party, they would receive a delegation formally at their home or at a political site in their home state, but they did not go to the convention and they didn't deliver a speech right at the convention. roosevelt broke with that convention in a very dramatic way. here he is delivering his acceptance speech to the convention. it's a really electrifying moment m

on october 22nd, 1914, herbert hoover established an organization to procure and deliver food to the certain ruin. >> there was no former human experience to turn for guidance. it would require that we find the major food supply for a whole nation, raise the money to pay for it, get it passed navies at see and occupying armies on land. set up an agency of distribution of supplies for everybody justly and see that the enemy took none of it. it was not relief in any known sense. it was the feeding of a nation. ♪ the nation is sad as can be a message came over the sea ♪ a thousand or more who sent from ashore have gone to eternity ♪ the statue of liberty high must now have a tear in her eye ♪ i think it's a shame someone is to blame ♪ ♪ but all we can do is just sigh ♪ some of us lost a true sweetheart ♪ ♪ some of us lost a dear dad ♪ some lost their mother sisters and brothers ♪ ♪ some lost the best friends they had ♪ ♪ it's time they were stopping this warfare if women and children must drown ♪ ♪ if they must drown ♪ many brave hearts went to sleep in the deep ♪ ♪ when the lucitania w

patrick hurley had been herbert hoover's secretary of war. he was o war. he was a conservative oklahoma oil businessman, you see, and he did not know diddle about china. when he wrote to chiang kai-shek, he wrote him a note saying, temporary mr. shek. [laughter] -- dear mr. shek. and he was -- but roosevelt had him there for political reasons, because with he wanted him to work on a coalition government. china was in danger, he felt, of going into a civil war. so he wanted a coalition government. and if that failed, he was going to blame it on hurley, you see? it was a kind of political shield. so, you know, he was always thinking about the domestic politics, and this was part of it. but eleanor was the voice on the left with system others who press -- with some others who pressed him to be more liberal. and, of course, that famous speech he gave in 1944 where he spoke about the economic bill of rights was, put up the flag of restoring new deal. but who knows what would have happened if he had lives. if he had lived. but i think he would have resigned afte

herbert hoover's secretary of war. he was a conservative oklahoma oil businessman and he did not know anything about china. he wrote to chang high check -- mister check. he was -- roosevelt had him there for political reasons, to work on a coalition government because china was in danger of the civil war. you wanted a coalition government and if that failed -- it was a political shield. he was always thinking about the domestic politics and this was part of it but eleanor was the voice on the left, and others, more liberal and a speech in 1944 about the economic bill of rights, put up the flag, restoring the new deal, but who knows what would have happened? he would have resigned after one year because his health was very precarious. >> one of the washington latin students, the intended audience for this book? >> basically i am wondering what you think of roosevelt, how he battled through physical care and going through the great depression and world war ii, do you think there was anything apart from loving the america

in specific since herbert hoover and that movie that was portrayed on him to call me the f.b.i. has been a political institution i know great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized look at bill clinton spec ground as well i mean it's a lot of very recent history where it's continued to be used in the way it is but yes we do right now have a constitutional crisis where devon noone is many of the other congressmen and house homeland security committee chairman ron johnson and his statements yesterday they have woken up to the fact of the flagrant abuse weaponization and politicization of this institution and it creates a very dangerous precedent because this goes back to a hoover style. yeah. you know and the way that they're doing things and being able to as kevin and just said surveil a candidate and surveil a transition team under false pretenses missing text messages come on there's no such thing i could recover my own if i deleted them tomorrow so this is just

president since herbert hoover.all the speeches into a computer, and what their software found is that president trump speaks at a fourth-grade level, lower than any president they've ever measured. [ laughter ] this is the chart. they rank the presidents using what they call the flesh-kinkade grade-level scale. herbert hoover is at the top, 11th grade level. obama was in third place with ninth grade. and then way all the way in the back of the class in the fourth grade there's donald trump. remember that show "are you smarter than a fifth-grader"? he's not. [ laughter ] a few months ago the president became pen pals with a 9-year-old. 9-year-olds are in the fourth grade, right? 9-year-old named pickle. this is what, for real, pickle wrote him back in june. he wrob, "dear president trump, my name is dylan but everybody calls me pickle. i am 9 years old. you are my favorite president. i like you so much. i hay birthday about you. my cake was shape of your hat. how old are you? how is the white house? how much money d

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. -- with herbert hoover. hoover lacked finesse, to say the least.he stock market crashes in the second year, lay in his first year, and dooms his presidency. vandenberg finds himself in opposition when fdr is elected and the democrats, in the road to 30's, take majority of the senate. he is in opposition for the next dozen years. that, to get anything done, which often meant resisting a lot of frank when roosevelt's initiatives, there needed to be a coalition. he needed to reach across the aisle. he really came of age in such a minority that, to be effective, whether creating a neutrality a ship canaling going across the peninsula of florida, he needs republican votes and democratic votes. that gave him an early experience in compromise and coalition building to get anything done. brian: here is some video of a senate hearing. we have covered a lot of it over the last four years. behind a viewpoint vandenberg looking at the natchez and, who at the time was secretary of state, 1949. he would have been a democrat. hendrik: yes. brian: let's watch this

in 1944, he said a man named patrick as the american ambassador had been herbert hoover's secretary of war and was a conservative loyal businessmen. he didn't know anything about china. he was there for political reasons they wanted a coalition government and he was going to blame it on them because it was a kind of political shield. he's more liberal and of course the place to be for speech that was given in 1944 to put up the flag of restoring the new deal i think that he would have resigned after one year because his health was very precarious. going through the great depression and world war ii do you think he had any other motives for those that were trying to bring the country together? >> he was always mindful of the youth in the country they had to have the state directors b the u directors and eleanor roosevelt went down to texas to see what he was doing and he would spend the night for example in a college for the statewide office but he never could have run. it'if they strictly segregated state. when johnson of the presidency they also do things for the war on poverty, the g

in specific since herbert hoover and the movie that was portrayed on him komi the f.b.i. has been a political institution great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized look at bill clinton spec ground as well i mean it's a lot of very recent history where it's continued to be used in the way it is but yes we do right now have a constitutional crisis where devon noone is many of the other congressmen and house homeland security committee chairman ron johnson and his statements yesterday they have woken up to the fact of the flagrant abuse weaponization and politicization of this institution and it creates a very dangerous precedent because this goes back to a hoover style. yeah. you know and the way that they're doing things and being able to as kevin and just said surveil a candidate and surveil a transition team under false pretenses missing text messages come on there's no such thing i could recover my own if i deleted them tomorrow so this is just beyond

in specific since herbert hoover and the movie that was portrayed on him to call me the f.b.i. has been a political institution i know great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized look at bill clinton spec ground as well i mean it's a lot of very recent history where it's continued to be used in the way it is but yes we do right now have a constitutional crisis where devon noone is many of the other congressmen and house homeland security committee chairman ron johnson and his statements yesterday they have woken up to the fact of the flagrant abuse weaponization and politicization of this institution and it creates a very dangerous precedent because this goes back to a hoover style. yeah. you know and the way that they're doing things and being able to as kevin and just said surveil a candidate and surveil a transition team under false pretenses missing text messages come on there's no such thing i could recover my own if i deleted them tomorrow so this is just

in specific since herbert hoover and that movie that was portrayed on him to call me the f.b.i. has been a political institution great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized look at bill clinton spec ground as well i mean it's a lot of very recent history where it's continued to be used in the way it is but yes we do right now have a constitutional crisis where devon noone is many of the other congressmen and house homeland security committee chairman ron johnson and his statements yesterday they have woken up to the fact of the flagrant abuse weaponization and politicization of this institution and it creates a very dangerous precedent because this goes back to a hoover style. yeah. you know and the way that they're doing things and being able to as kevin just said surveil a candidate and surveil a transition team under false pretenses missing text messages come on there's no such thing i could recover my own if i deleted them tomorrow so this is just beyond the

[applause] and not able to make it tonight, but herbert hoover, francis goe middle school. [applause] thank you, all, so much. >> can we see the banner? >> we're going to have one of these to sign and put it up in the building, i hope. >> thank you. [applause] >> vice-president mendoza-mcdonnell: congratulations. thank you so much. our student delegate report is next. >> thank you. we look forward to working with you, brad, and developing a good relationship between students and yourself. and continuing on, sac's fundraiser has met its goal of 75 shirts, but continuing to try to raise more money for health in tradition. our sale is friday, january 12, and our live link is still up. along with that, we were informed that bart prices did rise, with an additional 50 cent charge for paper tickets. our goal is to inform students that use 18 and under have half off as opposed to 5-12, which was in place last year. enjoy the new discounts. >> the annual use summit is quickly approaching. it will be march 16, 2018, at for the mason center. our theme is operation make your mark. we

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about communism or anti- communism the place to go is the hoover institution which was founded by herbert hoover in 1919 so you should know the president's essay at the heritage foundation will be over another month or so side and helping to research and learning self -- learning so much who was a most admirable man but was saddled with the idea he was personally responsible somehow through the great depression that is not the case but ladies and gentlemen's what i have tried to do with what i have written and if you think about it they really were conservative giants who walked the earth of the 20th century. those giants were ronald reagan, barry goldwater and buckley. as a matter of fact a rope biographies of all three of those and study them so what do they have in common? they were charismatic leaders who could inspire an audience to action and the belief free enterprise brings more prosperity more than any other economic system for guidance and inspiration to be practicing men of faith and they hated communism that is one reason i wanted to write about them and every other form of tyranny o

because herbert hoover was the president and he was not looked on well by the american populace after he refused to step in and do anything. did. riney-kehrberg: he some things but he did not do what people interpreted as enough. the shantytowns were called hoover ville's and that is where lots of people lived when their families ran out of money. it was food, whether it was clothing, whether it was shelter, there were a lot of people who were doing without during the 1930's because they simply did not have the wherewithal to do otherwise. one of the questions we have is how did the depression change america's eating habits? there's a recent book about how the great depression changed how america eight. -- how america ate. eragreat depression was an where cheap food was en vogue and that's -- and that food lacked in taste. it was very bland. one great depression recipe that i have seen that looks horrible was a casserole recipe where you took spaghetti and boiled the spaghetti for 20 minutes. that is twice as long as you should boil spaghetti. you mixed it with boiled carrots, chopped

in 2014 republicans got their biggest majority in the house since herbert hoover and won back the senate right after a government shutdown. it was more politically complicated because barack obama was in the white house. here you have a clean set of circumstances where republicans control all three players here, house, senate and white house. it looks like republicans would get blamed but i actually don't believe based on conversations i've had over the last 12 hours, i don't believe the government is going to shut down. i do believe that the freedom caucus is going to get on board at some point or a big bulk of them and it might be with the president's urging if people in the white house are watching, they should probably quickly move to discuss this with the freedom caucus before this gets out of control in the next six or seven hours. >> jon: from your lips to the white house's ears. >> i hope so. >> jon: jake sherman. interesting to watch over the next 48 hours plus. thank you. >> julie: north and south korea agreeing to form a joint team of athletes who will march together at the ol

and herbert hoover in the white house. if presidential history is a topic that interests you, visit booktv.org and search presidential biography book. several programs will appear and you can watch them all online. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. welcome. happy new year. i am david azerrad, dean of hillsdale college, welcome to the center for constitutional studies and citizenship which is our campus in the nation's capital. this event is sponsored by real clear politics, realclearpolitics.com. david dozier who is hiding in the back is the publisher, jan mcintyre, the cofounder is with us as well. our discussion deals with a collection of essays the list on the 35th anniversary of the new criterion magazine in which those essays were originally published, the title of the book is "vox populi: the perils & promises of populism". which is also our topic. that is not a new idea. the voice of the people is the voice of god which was often times use not only to attack monarchs but to attack the people who says such n

andrew mellon, robber barron, the truss re secretary are in three different presidents, including herbert hoover. he force head son paul to work for the family business, the pittsburgh con come -- conglomerate. he had race horses and it was enjoying the race horses. during world war ii, bunny's husband and paul mellon were both in the oss, which as you can probably know was a predecessor to the cia. bows stationed in london and roomed together, we're talking really small world. stacy was a major war hero in oss, doing daredevil stuff. poor paul was in a funny way -- nobody wanted to give him a serious post because he was so wealthy. he began teaching horse riding infantry in kansas. he begged them to send him to overseas. the got on with the oss and got a paper pushing job. so i roomed together and had an interesting time. these world war ii letters were fun because it was like reading all of this gossip, bombs were falling in london and stacy is writing home about a terrible gold digger here named pamela churchill. and he was writing them to bunny about paul mellon's fair so bunny was very awar

something like 80% of people who voted for herbert hoover turned around and voted for him in 1932.e still lost by a landslide. hold your base and have them like you and still do very poorly in the elections. the other 70% of the country. the numbers with the president. they're not good numbers. they have improved over the last few weeks. this trend, his job approval numbers and the averages have ticked back up over 40 for the first time since the spring. >> in the two weeks in which he used that word about the other countries and that there's allegations about a payoff to an adult movie store. >> and also seeing improvement in the numbers for republicans in congress. being behind by six is not great. >> is this the tax bill. >> i think part of the tax bill's numbers have improved what. is tax bill is not popular. the good thing to happen for republicans is the tax bill gave them ownership over the economy. key economic policy they made. people look out at the economy which the polls show people think the economy is quite kwood right now. the fact republicans have economic policy th

, cnn contributor and has been a citizen since birth and the great granddaughter of president herbert hooverand also, the author of a terrific new book. the square and the tower, networks and power, from the free masons to facebook. he hopes to take the exam to become a u.s. citizen soon. i'm confident he will pass. david, on immigration, where do you think -- yourestrictsist, b notice since the president has been talking about this you have been reluctant to agree with him. >> i got this asked to me before. he's saying many. things about immigration that you have said, why don't i support him. >> my response is the reason i said those was to keep people like donald trump out of power, not to bring them into power. donald trump is exactly what i was afraid of in all those long years when i was talking about the need for a moderated approach. the alternative -- 2016 the united states received nearly 2 million, about half illegal. that is tied with 1998. as the second highest year on record. and as you have noted, the proportion of the foreign-born not population is reaching pre world war i pe

fact what allows the orphaned and socio- economically disadvantaged young man by the name of herbert hoover to receive a college degree. now as you are aware it was a truly wrenching event in history and disrupted society that ushered in the commercial ethos to be sure its most celebrated consequence was the liberation of millions of people from enslavement and soon here again and in response to the political and economic change we witnessed the establishment of higher education in reaction to what existed previously. for most colleges c and universities prior to the civil war, they gathered in washington, d.c. in 1866 to establish a university dedicated to the common good through the higher education of black americans supported by and named for the bureau commissioner howard university was intended in particular to served recently emancipated people. by the time the university opened however it and come this almost every element in america at the time and it offered a traditional collegial program howard himself was a boat in college graduate and a strong advocate of that model. also offe

herbert hoover came out of retirement and wrote the civil service act. david: right. mr.id a lot of good things. and i feel, you know, that george and i have been blessed because we were reasonably young. barack obama is young. and so you got, you can be double lucky. you can serve eight years as president and do some other good things. david: john kennedy was once asked at a press conference, what do you think about this job and would you recommend the job? he said not to others right now, so i can finish my tenure. would you recommend the job to people? would you say it is worth the aggravation factor and all the hard work to become president, or would you recommend they pursue something else? mr. clinton: in a heartbeat. [applause] david: the highest calling of mankind i have often thought was private equity. [laughter] david: but you would saving president of the united states is better than private equity? [laughter] mr. clinton: i don't know. mr. bush: we make $200,000 a year in pension. what do you make? [laughter] david: money isn't everything. but yes. [laughter]

and, you know, fdr, the famous big public works accomplishment of herbert hoover was the hoover dam andged the title to the boulder dam and stripped hoover's name off of it. it's a little bit like that with trump. what's made it worse, he's charged obama with a felony of wiretapping. >> speaking of the president let's listen in more quickly. >> you look at that and see what's happening and this is real america. democrats want to see a shutdown to get off the subject. the subject is not working for them. the tax cuts and tax reform has not been working well for the democrats. now yesterday you saw with apple, $350 billion investment. now they're also giving thousands of dollars to their employees. that's happening all over the country. and i'm really happy. people are doing well, better than they have in years. tax cuts, not only have they worked but are working much bigger and much faster than we ever thought possible. we'll talk to you later. rick saccone said he was trump before trump. rick is a great guy. i think he's going to do really well. he's a great guy. loves this area. loves

which is in fact what allows an orphaned and so-you're economically disadvantaged young man named herbert hoover to receive a college degree. now, as you are all aware the civil war was a truly wrenching event in u.s. history, and it disrupted american society in profound ways. it ushered in a commercial ethos to be sure but perhaps the most disrun runted consequence what the liberation of millions from enslavement. so here again, and in response to social, political and economic change, we witness the establishment of higher education institutions in reaction to what existed previously. given the exclusion of black americans from most colleges and universities prior to the civil warring, reformerred gathered in washington, dc in 1866 to establish a university dedicated to the common good through the higher education of black americans, supported be and named for u.s. freedman's bury re commissioner, oliver howard. howard university was initially intended to educate preachers and teacher, in particular, to serve recently emancipated people. by the time the university opened, however, it encompas

but something like 80% of people who voted for herbert hoover voted for him in 1932 and he still lost by a landslide. you can hold your base of 30% and have them really like you and still do very poorly in elections because there's the other 70% of the country. you know, the numbers you went through there with the president, they're not good numbers. they have improved in the last few weeks. not just the nbc poll. his job approval numbers have ticked back up over 40 for the first time since the spring. >> in the two weeks in which he used that word about the other countries and there's allegations about a payoff to an adult movie star. >> right. and you're also seeing improvement for numbers of republicans in congress. being behind by six in the generic ballot is not great. >> is this the tax bill? >> so i think part of the -- the tax bill's numbers have improved somewhat. the tax bill is not real popular, but i think a good thing that's happened for republicans is the tax bill gave them some more ownership over the economy. there's a key economic policy that they made, and so when pe

he only said i could not write a biography about herbert hoover or jefferson davis. that is what he said. sometimes when there is a certain amount of prejudice and -- involved, i make my read the biography on stanton. bill does the research. even his research is excellent. and sears' neweset volume is even more hostile toward mcclellan. he has gotten even more hostile over the years, not less. read them together, they are the best. and read some of the articles, too, because mark is not uncritical of mcclellan, but he is more sympathetic as well. >> um, there is a famous incident after the 70's battle where mcclellan sunday telegraph to the war department and basically says that the administration is responsible for the defeat of the army. and he takes out -- [indiscernible] would he have been sacked at that? george: eventually those become known. and again, lincoln has opportunities. i think lincoln gets certain credit for being patient with mcclellan. some would say that he was far too patient with mcclellan. but of course, the other thing is -- what are his choice

but something like 80% of people who voted for herbert hoover voted for him in 1932 and he still lost landslide. you can hold your base of 30% and still do very poorly in elections because there's the other 70% of the country. you know, the numbers you went through there with the president, they're not good numbers. they have improved in the last few weeks. his job approval numbers have ticked back up over 40 for the first time since the spring. >> in the two weeks in which he used that word about the other countries and there's allegations about a payoff to an adult movie star. >> right. and you're also seeing improvement for numbers of republicans in congress. >> is this the tax bill? >> so i think part of the -- the tax bill's numbers have improved somewhat. the tax bill is not real popular, but i think a good thing that's happened for republicans is the tax bill gave them some more ownership over the economy. there's a key economic policy that they made, sp so when people look out at the economy, which polls show people think the economy is quite good right now. that might be some

and herbert hoover in the white house. if presidential history is a topic that interests you, visit booktv.org and search presidential biography book. several programs will appear and you can watch them all online. [inaudible conversations]

most recently kenneth white's hoover, american ulysses about president grant and herbert hoover in thehite house. presidential history is a topic that interests you, visit booktv.org and visit presidential biography book. several programs will. you can watch them online. >> the national book critics circle, price literary critics, authors and members of the book publishing industry, and the outstanding books of 2017, other finalists include jack davis's look at the gulf of mexico, francis fitzgerald's history of evangelism in america. russian-american journalist's report on the generation of russians who came of age during the putin regime. and the art of death, kevin young's bunk and roxanne's memoir hunger. booktv has covered several of this year's finalists. >> it means losing people we love but one thing i learned, especially the dying writers like audrey lord who have this -- even with my experience, one thing i realized, dying people want to live. live the best life you can. don't have any regrets at the end. >> do we find that message? >> living itself, in the back of our minds.

"american ulysses" by robert white, and "hearth hoover in -- herbert hoover in the white house." visit booktv.org and search presidential biography book. several programs will appear, and you can watch them all online. >> hello. welcome to cambridge forum live in harvard square, and thank you for joining us for what promises to be a i'mly and somewhat edgy discussion about trust. a small word but one with huge ramifications in today's complex technological word. who can you trust? it's the subject of tonight's forum and also the title of rachel botsman's latest book on the subject. i'm the director of cambridge forum, and we're pleased to have rachel as our guest speaker tonight on the last stop of her nine week tour which rather begs the question of why is trust such a hot topic around the world at this point in history. it is a time when confidence in institutions and governments is at an all-time low, but when there has been a huge surge in the growth of shared economy companies like airbnb, tinder and uber. statistics show that we are shifting our trust away from institutions

and herbert hoover in the white house by charles, if presidential history is a topic that interest yousit booktv.org, and search presidential biography book. several programs will appear and you can watch them all online. booktv is on twitter and facebook and we want to hear from you tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page facebook.com/booktv. >> often in our lives the illusion of information is actually far more dangerous than ignorance. so -- the way they'll put this this is he'll say that trust has two memes, not one. the first is bad character. and the second is poor information. so the question that i decided to ask myself in my research was how can a technology address these problems? is technology making us smarter about who we trust or is it encouraging us to place our trust in the wrong people on the wrong places? so are we, in fact, giving our trust away to the wrong thing and is technology playing role in that? why don't i think this is such an important question? all right so let's -- did a very quick exercise you can kind of see where this is go

herbert hoover held meetings beneath it, franklin roosevelt spoke to churchill in the shade, richard nixon strode past it when he left the white house for the last time, in 1994 a maryland man piloting a solo plan clipped the tree before suffering a deadly crash. some say it may have david president bill clinton's life. no tree on the white house grounds can reveal so many secrets of romance and history. long-time white house butler alonzo fields once told the press. the magnolia may be dying, but it's children and great children will live on. in 1998 president ronald reagan presented a cutting of the jackson magnolia to a former majority leader of this senate when reagan retired as his chief of staff. baker planted that at his home. six years later in 1994, baker was lunching at his home with john rice zyrwin. he had noticed the tree, which has grown to a height of 18 feet, he told the story of the jackson magnolia and with the help of the tennessee college of agriculture, arrangeled for two cuttings from baker's magnolia to be sent to john rice erwin. then he presided at a museum o

continued in the postwar period and it continued through private philanthropy so herberthrough herbert hoovere led to this in 1914 over this aid is flowing int was flowing n occupied areas continued with that philanthropic effort all the way into 1923 and redirected most of it into eastern europe they wanted was to prevent the epidemics during the whole process was still in effect. so the idea that the united states could also use soft power and economic aid ended with trade relationships that it could begin to connect with parts of the world but are not traditionally seen as a strategic interest. this is increasingly in the mindset and as you point out in the prewar period they were directing a lot of a britain and france and that was the distribution committee that came into existence and is famous for helping survivors of the holocaust after world war ii but that is a world war i organization that was created to help the jewish refugees were fleeing on the eastern front and every time the army moved 200 miles, a bunch are running in fron front of trying to get f the way so there was a huge

the herbert hoover dike on lake okeechobee that prevents a catastrophic flooding event, you have people flooding just south of it. it happened almost a century ago. people died because of flooding. this dike was built t has been found to be rated among the most vulnerable water infrastructure projects in the nation. we are lucky that it wasn't breached in the storm. but it could have been had the rainfall been located at the right place at the right triumphant it's been priority of our delegation for a long time to expedite the construction of rehabilitation, to strengthen that dike. that is good opportunity to do that. because there will be other storms because the project was delayed when the storm hit. this is a chance to finish that role. other parts that are critical to florida's economy, bee tree nourishment, intercoastal habilitation projects. these are important. it is the reason people visit. some of these beaches were severely eroded particularly in southeast florida. the water is coming up to the edge of property lines. if there is no beach, the condominiums, there's no visit

herbert hoover who led this huge mission in 1914 to 1917 over the rape of belgium, and a lot of aid was flowing into german occupied areas, continued with that effort all the way into 1923. a lot of that aid was meant to prevent typhus epidemics. it was a matter of feeding these populations, the idea that the united states could also use you soft power. that this was increasingly in the mind-set. and i should point out in the prewar period, there was the jewish joint distribution committee. which came into existence. famous for help iing survivors the holocaust. that is a world war i organization that was designed to help refugees. every time the army moves 200 miles. a bunch of civilians are running out in front trying to get away. in addition, the hope was that hungry people, the thought just like after world war ii was hungry people are more likely to turn to bolshivism than people that are well fed. the idea that it was just in the handser national agreement laws this is going to handle all the world's problems is a fall way to look at a more integrated approach people were taking i