he was looming over hoover and hoover begins to tell him about the osage murder cases. at that time the bureau was working on the case for two years of the results were disastrous. that only had agents failed to make arrests, they had gotten an outlaw out of prison. they assured state authorities not to worry about it we will use him as an informant. after he got out of prison he robbed a bank and killed the police officer. he would later lead his own unfortunate fate, but hoover, get hard to believe was insecure about his power and he feared a scandal could end his dreams of building a bureaucratic empire. the bureau had been entangled in a scandal which was another oil corruption scandal involving kickbacks, bribes and coverups. he feared if there is another scandal he might be ousted. when whites get there he realizes he had not been summoned to be fired, hoover summoned him to save his own tail. he needs one of the experience cowboys to help try to take over the osage case. white realizes that given the danger the only way to try to crack the case is to put together

hoover's day. if i wanted to boost rugged individualism, i think i would have to work on equality of opportunity for that hybrid to work. i think i am responsible for that. >> david, from personal experience or the book, can you address if you have seen correlation, or anti-correlation between maybe the strength of organized religion in the u.s. and rugged individualism. it would seem like religion encourages more interdependence and community. but a look at history might see that when organized religion was strongest in the u.s. that is when rugged individualism thrived. any correlation or thoughts there? >> we certainly argue in the book that one of the roots if you will or part of the dna was religion, specifically christianity, and in that time, specifically a certain form of protestant christianity this was part of the dna in the country. a key part is man's individual accountability to god. that sure, you can elect or consent to join a search. we will not have state churches that everybody ha

so, herbert hoover would say when they ran for president in 1932, hoover said right hi, i think, nose a contest between two men. this is a contest between two philosophies of government. roosevelt wants to move away from individualism, what hoover called the american system, and he wants a different system. the new deal is a different kind of system. this american system versus the new deal. the new deal was about expert administrators, more central government planning, emergency measures, government growth, all of this part of the new deal that roosevelt would bring along. the way gordon and i characterize -- caricature if we were pet are artists -- the forgotten command the rugged individual. those are two -- forgotten man and the rugged individual. those or two cartoon characters that capture the debate between roosevelt and hoover. you've have what we think of as the rugged individual on the lift, hoover, and then we have roosevelt's forgotten man, here on the right. roosevelt would say we need to replace the rugged individual with the forgotten man as the focus of government poli

[inaudible question] >> hoover. so, my picture of hoover and hemingway it's little different from other people's puck tour of hoover and hemingway. we have the file. the fbi its great about foia and i have -- actually have foia reading room on the web site and you can read most of hemingway's fbi file on there does j.ed edgar hoover know hemingway had a dalliance with the soviet? no. did hoover know that hemmingway has friend on the sunset yes. does hoover think that hemingway was guilty of anything except for being maybe at built of a fellow travel center absolutely not. we have hoover's on handwriting on the file near the end hoff the file and she says i know he was not a communist, just a rough, tough guy who stood up for the. guy. hoover -- i mean, think what you want about hoover and other cases, but in this turk case, that's kind of the gentler, kind are hoover we don't get to see very much of. >> tell us about or love -- [inaudible] >> i think he lives in dayton or cleveland. orloff -- one of his jobs is to k

commission.that would be herbert hoover , later president of the united states. and the first thing was that mr. hoover is famous for in this commission. -- aftere relief of world war i of belgium and holland. he, earl, would write about the needs, oversized about the need gifts, whatever the hoover commission wanted to do, and it was very, very successful. the next thing that was major that he worked on with the a massivemission was mississippi river flood that overflowed the banks of the mississippi in the 1920's.and the commission went in with help to get these people along the river back on their feet. many of people that he met he would later write about because they were, i guess, you could call them movers and shakers and policymakers. so his reputation was established, both here in california and throughout the country. probably his best friend in that regard was earl warren. he knew in the days of being a district attorney in oakland. he later became attorney general, and then governor of the state of california, and, as you know, the chief justice of th

in fact, it worked too well for herbert hoover. hoover was very entrepreneurial and intelligent government official. he had been one of the most successful government engineers in the early part of the century and had famously and joined government in world war i in the relief -- belgian relief effort and became prized for his skill and efficiency. he also know a lot about the emerging radio technology into the rules he put into place were important in sponsoring development of the industry. but as a regulator, hoover made it clear he did not care about limiting interference. he wanted more jurisdiction, more authority to determine actually not just how markets developed but who got to broadcast and what they said. this was a popular view of amongst other policymakers, republicans and democrats alike because they wanted this obviously influential medium of public opinion to have some regulatory component that could be influenced from washington. at the same time, the industry as it was developing exhibited some pronounced standard

the library we visited was the hoover library. and about all you remember or is the e with hoover depression years and his library eally brought forward all the humanitarian work he did, both before his presidency and after war ii, i found that very important. then when we went to gerald museum, that was a time e lived through, that was very interesting. some of the ed at hate mail he received after he that brought , forward his character. anyway, we've been to several of them and just thoroughly enjoy them. i would like to go to the two bush museums, but because they such heavily urban areas we are not brave enough to drive there. thank you for the program, i found it very interesting. you. hos host: -- guest: the herbert hoover caller's comment about how they focus less on reat depression and more on humanitarian aid and with gerald richard nixon that, is exactly what the designers want you to have, the xperience that says, i didn't know that or i'd like to rethink t, rethink the presidency or maybe learn something new. the conc

so herbert hoover stopped enforcing the priority news roles. this occurs on a particular day when he puts out a press announcement saying there will be no more enforcement and that does invite entry of a couple hundred stations. there were about 550 stations and 200 more quickly entered the market. there was a lot of moving around between them. there are some complaint, they .all it at the time "the of the breaking of the law." some what the navy bedlam."l "etheric it could be solved through court litigation or a statute that revisits the questions and establishes the roles of the road. adopts the mechanisms already in place. during the time of the breakdown of the law, september-november 1926 there is a court case in the state of illinois. it is not the top headline. this is the next headline "quick fixes radio rights in air. ." wins that was a headline from the paper that owned that station in 1926. they went to court because the interloper during the interim came in and moved their frequency assignment and broadcast from wgn too close. wgnd

it was first true and second i was very, very much about being in kind of a -- kind of a jay edgar hoover type situation. i didn't want him thinking i was

there didn't seem to have the rigidity in hoover or the coolidge administration.coolidge will come in the kitchen and critique what the service reading as it seems like reading a lot of the food here now with the food. >> what about the wilson administration? he desegregated the civil service. >> they still have the segregation but wilson was a southerner there's a lot of reports of him meeting the southern food by white house staff. there's more during the harding administration but he love their food. >> so the harding administration seem to be a feeling of calm robbery. harding was big and waffles. the cook that would make these waffles were celebrated and talked about how much he loved their waffles. >> he waffled in a good way do you know daisy bonner and -- government? and i haven't read your book yet but in the next administration can you expand on the. >> i do not know if they actually met. i didn't find a record of it. i don't know but the second one was over something silly. the first lady, mrs. truman wanted a stick of butter and mrs. nesbitt refused to

the major weekend for hoover.g big changes after i had anticipated board meeting yesterday. lauren: of tracee carrasco details of the meeting. >> at barney, barney cheryl. crisis that after the board of directors met on sunday to discuss the recent issues. on the table a leave of absence for embattled ceo travis kalanick and chief business officer someone michael. he could resign as early as today according to "the wall street journal." the departure said to be related to an internal investigation into the work of a sculpture by former attorney general eric holder. the investigation comes after 20 managers and other employees were fired last week. discrimination and bullying. recommendations for the company represented in sunday's board reading. they voted unanimously to adopt all the recommendations which could include training and to address the future of key executives including someone michael and travis kalanick. it comes at time of both personal and professional turmoil. his 4-year-old mother died in a boati

actor herbert hoover, secretary of commerce through those rules, 90 years ago, still govern the way weually allow resources to be used in our economy today. it is tremendously important, fundamental to innovation, to technological progress, the way we talk, that way we get medicine. everything is changing to wireless, for obvious efficiency reasons but we have a lot of problems still with some of the very rigid -- i would say traditional old-fashioned rules put into place and previous generations. we are trying to break away. it has been a pattern of liberalization that has been extremely successful, but we have a long way to go, and so much more could come forth if we really understood that. brian: what is a radio spectrum? tom: it is a space through which signals travel. it was originally thought to be a gaseous substance, the ether. it turns out, that is not it. even in dead space, these radio signals can still travel. they are used recommendations. radio transmits, radio receives. we put stuff together and all of a sudden, you are in the wireless world. they think that is just part

this is video showing the bear in the tree in the backyard of a home hoover avenue and street road.e officials tried to shoot tranquilizers at the bear. the black bear was spotted sunday before making its way up the tree in the backyard of a hoover avenue house. there's cell phone video taken of the bear by residents. this was the same bear seen earlier today as he opened a gate and also made his way through the neighborhood. actually it opened the gate by himself. local fire officials and state team officials responded using a tranquilizer gun, they don't know if they worked. they think one hit the bear, but soon after he ran back up the tree. >> our feeling is, he is up the tree, he will get hurt seriously even with the air bags, we'll hope he come out on his down and leave him alone for a while. >> reporter: back out here live there's a lot of spectators for the feasterville bear. they tell us it is a two-year-old male bear. there was another bear spotted in doylestown. it's hard to tell if they are one and the same. >> bears attract a crowd. thank you annie. >>> moving on to the

[applause] >>. >> how did this differed from herbert hoover? so what happened with african-american cooks?. >> under roosevelt there was more open and camaraderie. so we did not have that rigidity. so he was berry knows the. and also with the civil service?. >> but wilson was a southerner. and that was different from what was cooked by the white house staff by about zero about the interaction but that they love to their food. so it is a feeling of camaraderie. so he would eat a lot of waffles. don't waffle on the waffles. it was a good way. >> did days he or mrs. nesbitt ever meet?. >> i did up when the record of that. f i don't know. sole there were a few tussles but that was thefo plain old los issue is:a short time after that. after that alonzo becomes me judy -- maitre d. bat was a pivotal event over a stick of butter you would think of the first lady wants something she would get it. e >> so the position of the chief executive chef do they carry over?. >> mike every betty else they serve up the pleasure of the president sone typically the

book soirÉes and what hoover caused security by the book.as always, this event will be podcast it on l'affaire and as always security by the book events we don't take audience questions in the interview itself because of the podcast, i know last time that really upset somebody and i want to say sorry, not sorry, that's the way the event works. you are all, of course, invited after the interview segment to talk to the author, ask your questions, and have him sign your book. with that i will turn it over to sam and to graeme wood who well, let me introduce them both briefly. sam is a distinguished fellow at for and is senior fellow at the hudson institute and teaches. seven, this is a remarkable book and this is the only thing i'll say about the book. i couldn't recommend it more highly and i was very excited that he was coming here tonight. your national correspondent, at 20 i believe he also teaches at the yale political apartment and with that i'll turn it over to sam and thank you all for comi coming. >> thank you, then, for this introduct

edgar hoover, the only to serve under presidents of both parties. madam president, mr. mueller represents the best of public service. he will pursue this investigation without regard to politics or pressure of any kind, and that's exactly what america needs. the chorus of extreme commentators and media personalities who seek to curry favor with the president by trying to tear down in man of great integrity are only heaping dishonor on themselves. worse yet, they're trying to discredit our most important democratic institution, the rule of law. these critics know mr. mueller is a straight arrow and many of them said as much when he was appointed. but because he's in a position to examine the president's actions and perhaps take action, they're attacking his character. this is not, my colleagues -- this is not a political game. this is a very serious investigation about foreign interference in our elections, something that eats at, that corrodes the roots of our democracy, the very well-spring and -- the very wellstring and being and pride of our nation. the man leading t

he spoke for an hour at the hoover institution in washington.

it hoovers up it sits on the internet. it hoovers up all of the communications.employee who work in developing this technology. he told us that it has many components. 0ne told us that it has many components. one of them is decryption, voice recognition, mobile tracking, certain keywords, and all of this information is stored there for governments to analyse at any time they want. in short it means the governments have the ability to monitor their people all the time. which countries have bought the technology? we found out it has been sold to various countries throughout the world. we focused on the middle east. that is where the majority of the country's worth. if we look back to 2011, when the arab spring happened, one of the main tools that protesters used was social media, twitter, facebook, to organise. governments in those countries were shopping around for cyber surveillance technology because they really needed it. this was a huge opportunity for companies like bae systems to sell this kind of technology. now, in 2017, we've been able to prove that moroc

edgar hoover is represented in my book as well. i was able to uncover some conversations that president johnson had that were previously redacted about the advice he was giving him about the democratic party in 1964. it just goes to show that when you have a politically active detective agency in the fbi, how dangerous it can be for executive power. >> yes. i'm a little bit interested in joe kennedy, joseph kennedy oroe sr.. he's such a patriarchal figure, of course, to the whole kennedy clan. and, of course, both brothers,s, bobby and john, were so enamored of their father, and he was such a big influence in their political careers as they emerged. they became such great champions of civil rights and, of course, joe kennedy was a virulentt anti-semite. i'm not quite sure, perhaps you can enlighten me how he felt about the black experience, but did the kennedys really have to battle their father against this? were they afraid of his influence? please, shed some light on that for us, if you can. >> before getting into, i guess, how

that was named after albert hoover. poignant reminder of the skill of human suffering in the year 19 32 when frank and roosevelt was running for president. in 1932 democratic convention was held in chicago, and when roosevelt was nominated, he received word of the nomination in albany, and then he did something really unprecedented and quite dramatic. he actually threw out to the convention to accept the nomination in person. when americannt, presidential candidates received a nomination of their party, they would receive the delegation formally at their home, or in a political site, but they did not go to the convention, and they did not deliver a speech at the convention. well, roosevelt broke with that tradition and 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 term, a new deal. >> i pledge myself to a new deal for the american people. >> that expression, the new deal, becomes obvious a very highly a

board of directors and says his love for hoover is what drove him to follow his invest.

edgar hoover it would have thought that was obstruction so whose record at running anonymous leaks without was an enormous achievement so with that energy and enthusiasm that is the olympics of stupidity and then not to get anything in his finances by opposed to renewing the independent counsel act. they give the regular career and then is in the fitzgerald case the godfather to his children to a point a special counsel when they knew there is no crime because valerie blame was no longer protected at the cia. in the still pointed that independent counsel it is the most grotesque mischaracterization. that is why very worried about robert mueller. he has served with great distinction from vietnam have no doubt he is a person but he is surrounded himself with a collective group of people that will engage in a witch hunt. he needs to read the crucible. we know somebody is evil or dead maybe it is you for i have to yell ladies that were college republicans said for the entire week they would be only because it was inappropriate to smile because he won. >>. >> but that is at the root of the left

hoover died in office in 1972 after being fbi director for more than 40 years. so when hoover died, nixon got to appoint his replacement who was then the only -- only the second person to ever hold the job. his name was clarence kelley, the second director of the fbi. he served for about five years. then the third director was william webster. he was appointed by president carter in 1978. that, william webster, that's the guy who reagan moved over from the fbi to run the cia after his campaign manager there got a brain tumor and died. and that meant in 1987, at the end of ronald reagan's time in office, the fbi needed a new director for only the fourth time in its entire existence. it's fascinating. this really late in our history for this to be such a rare job opening. this is incredibly prestigious, incredibly powerful and incredibly important job. by the end of the '80s, only three people had ever held it in the history of our country. so he's looking for the fourth fbi director ever. and for whatever reason, ronald reagan had a heck of a time finding somebod

edgar hoover. yanking the leash on his nominal overseers, using the power of the information he's amassed about them. the other is the insufficient autonomous intelligence agencies, that's fine, loyalists to the administration tower using it to get the tools of evidence. one of the reasons i think it's raised as a special concern the scale is magnified so dramatically. if you think back to the kind of intelligence scandal that was exposed in the 60s and 70s, these involved first labor intensive deliberate targeting of people like martin luther king and civil rights leaders and also because it involves signatory for that kind of abuse that was after the fact, something you were likely to notice. i think at one point in the 70s, there had been a decade-long wiretap. they were saying, what is it there for? so at least shut that down. >> one reason it's so discerning is you're talking about every year, between 90, hundred,000 persons have their information targeted for interception. and then being stor

this was j edgar hoover, the new director. age 29.gotten an outlaw out of jail, hoping to use him as an informant. instead, he slipped away, he robbed a bank and he killed a police officer. j. edgar hoover is afraid of a scandal. our most autocratic bureaucrat in history. back then, he was insecure in his position as a new director. lawmanoned a frontier with more experience to help. he is name -- his name was tom white. he put together an undercover and team, most interestingly, one of the undercover operatives was an american indian. probably the only one in his -- in hoover's bureau. they go in undercover. they posed as insurance salesman, a cattleman. according to records, they sold actual policies. they ultimately follow the money to try to determine who was profiting from these murders of the families. that money leads them directly back into the house. mollie burkart's own husband and her husband's uncle were behind the killings in her family. david: her own husband. charlie: at which point did she realize that? david: she real

edgar hoover, j. edgar hoover lad a lot of independence from the justice department and from presidents, and it resulted in a very unhealthy situation. >> woodruff: and, in fact, comey raised the name of j. edgar hoover today. >> i heard that. maybe the biggest question swirling around: has the president or have other white house officials obstructed justice? let's listen to how senators pressed comey on that point. >> do you believe there were any tapes or recordings of your conversations with the president? >> it never occurred to me until the president's tweet. i'm not being facetious. i hope there are. >> so both of you are in the same findings here, you both hope there are taping and recordings? >> well all i can do is hope. the president surely knows if he taped me. if he did, my feelings aren't hurt. release all of the tapes i'm good with it. >> do you believe this rises to obstruction of justice? >> i don't know, that's bob mueller's job to sort that out. >> a lot of this comes down to who sho

primary actor herbert hoover, secretary of commerce. and those rules 90 years ago still govern the way we actually allow resources to be used in our economy today. >> clemson university professor and former chief economist at the fcc thomas hazlett talks about his book "the political spectrum" which looks at the history and politics of u.s. communications policy. >> when we went to this political system for allocating spectrum rights in 1927, within a couple years, the regulators at the commission are renewing licenses but very carefully noting that propaganda stations will not be allowed. in fact, early on, 1929, in that period, you had left wing stations affected use that political term owned by the wcfo in chicago, a labor union, and webd, a socialist who bought a station near new york city. they wanted for political purposes free speech you might say, they wanted to espouse their opinions. these were immediately dubbed propaganda stations by the regulators. when they were renewed they were told to be very careful about expressing th

one of the new faces in government, herbert hoover, organizer of war worldwide relief for belgium inummoned to run the full program at home. battalions of volunteers, work forms plant war gardens to feed the nation and allies. four housewives, the words are 'save food.' out in the field for women and youngsters, the slogan is "do a man's job." ♪ narrator: love may not change, but motherhood will never be the same after this war. america's women taking on a man's job make up new arguments to support 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 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 german 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 wagner's music the traits of war, lust, and cunning. jobs owned by german-americans ar

the stanford university hoover institute hosted this event. this panel is an hour and 15 minutes. >> tiny little table. >> all right. we are about to get started again. there are still a lot of seats in the front, too, so i encourage people to fill in as much as possible. i'm russell wald, the manager manager here at the hoover institution. for our next portion of today's conference, we will focus on the law and civil liberties of section 702. i'm going to do a very brief introduction of the esteemed panel and tush it over to the moderator. first i would start with julian sanchez who's a senior fellow at the cato institute where he focuses on the intersection of technology and privacy. alex abdo is senior attorney with columbia university's knight first amendment institute. formerly a senior staff attorney at the aclu where he has argued cases before the federal -- before federal court related to nsa surveillance. next we have susan hennessey, she is a fellow at the brookings institution and the managing editor of law fair, previously she serv

edgar hoover fbi anymore. but beyond this, what you just said and what the president said is that this is a political fight and he's going to fight it on his own terms. this is much more than a political fight. this is now a legal fight, this is a special investigation. because of the widening scope of this investigation and its broadened terms, the vice president now has a white-collar criminal attorney. everybody is having to lawyer up. this is far broader than politics, and the president risks by his continued lack of discipline the complete unraveling of any progress, political progress, in his administration, if this continues, and there's truly -- and by this, i mean his lack of self-discipline. character is destiny. i think many people voted for this man hoping he would be able to bulldoze, like a wrecking ball, through the bureaucracy in washington. the only thing he may end up wrecking is himself. >> keith boykin, you worked in the clinton white house, so you know what it's like to have special counse

programs office for the hoover institution. welcome to sunrise or sunset, the future of section 702, the foreign intelligence surveillance act. our first speaker will be john villasenor, who is a visiting fellow here at the hoover institution. he wears a number of hats. he's also an affiliate at stanford center for international security and cooperation. he's a professor at ucla where he holds appointments in schools of engineering, public affairs, and governance. he's also a visiting professor in the ucla school of law. his research focuses on the intersection of technology, policy, business law, and the wider ramifications of key technological trends and developments. he's testified before congress, most recently on drones, privacy, and intellectual property. john is going to go through the basics of section 702, sort of like a 101 introduction to it, and that will set up the rest of our program today. john, welcome. >> thank you very much. thank you all for coming today. so i realize there's probably -- probably some of the

he becomes chief of staff of the army understand hoover, president hoover in 1930. and then retires from the army, make aglong story short, ends up in the philippines. he's an advisor. and by the fall of 1941 he's basically convinced the american leadership war department that he can in fact defend the entire a arkpelco of the philippines. so that really brings us to the summer of 1941. and i think something that's important, here's nimitz taking command of the pacific fleet. right after pearl harbor roosevelt said to king tell nimitz to go out there and stay there until the war is won. and nimitz did. he's kind of in shock, he ends up then flying from the west coast to pearl harbor. and he assumes command on the deck of the gray lg on december 31st of 1941. and he later joked that he took command on a submarine because it's the only ship that would have survived the attack. well, that was his sense of humor, obviously it wasn't quite that bad. but what nimitz didn't recognize, and i think what's important to the up coming battles, he recognized that despite the hor

, president hoover in 1930. then retires from the army, making a long story short, ends up in the philippines, he's an advisor. by the fall of 1941, he's basically convinced the american leadership, the war department, that he can in fact defend the entire part of the philippines. that really brings us to december 7th of 1941. i think the thing that is important here is nimitz taking command of the commander in chief of the pacific fleet. right after pearl harbor, roosevelt said to king, tell nimitz to get out to pearl harbor and stay there until the war is won. nimitz did, takes a train across country, kind of in shock, ends up flying from the west coast to pearl harbor and he assumes come manned on the deck on december 21st of 1941. he later joked he took command on the submarine because it was the only ship that survived the attack. that was nimitz' sense of humor. obviously, it wasn't quite that bad. what nimitz did recognize, i think what's important to the upcoming battles, not only at coral sea but certai

about his book "the political spectrum: the tumultuous liberation of wireless technology from herbert hooverthe smartphone." ♪ brian: tom haslett, why did you write the book "the political spectrum?" tom: there is a great set of stories, unknown to most people about how we got into the age of wireless. wireless seems like a bit of magic.

well, when fdr first got in the oval office, he found that his predecessor herbert hoover was also a stamp collector, but not nearly on the level as fdr and he initiated a program with the state department that once the contents were taken out of these envelopes on the envelopes, this would have particular from 1935, all of the envelopes would be forwarded to the oval office to see if the president needed the stamps for his collection. fdr being fdr he once wrote a letter in pencil on white house stationery and i got it in my hands when i was researching for the book and it was from the president to the secretary of state and i said they must have misfiled it and i better hand the sin, but you know i was going to read the letter anyway and it was handwritten in pencil to the secretary of state where fdr was accusing the state department employees of holding back some of the empty envelopes and he insisted the secretary of state oversee that operation. any stamps he didn't need his first secretary as president would snip them off and when she got 25 she would put them in what we call

he is recuse himself, and comey was wanting to create a cougar situation -- create a james edgar hoover situation. what you think about the prospects of an independent investigation? if this kind of hearing was held three weeks ago, are not have been --there may not of been quite the call. we have a bizarre behavior by the white house. i have served since president carter, so i have reagan, bush and bush and clinton. i have never seen behavior like this by a president. without knowing all the facts and all of the data, we don't really know what activity took place at kobe criminal or could justify further prosecution. it is worthwhile to have both venues. is we are live shot waiting for the chairman of vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee to you and talk to cameras. we will go live when it happens. you want to go to shannon pettypiece. james comey really did not back off saying we do not have the resident united states an investigation. but i want to come back to this issue of why he wrote the ,emoranda and i will play it that exchange with senator warner. was concerned he

herberty on "q&a," hoover and secretary of commerce and those rules 90 years ago still govern the way actually allowed resources to be used in our economy today. >> clemson university professor and former chief economist at the fcc thomas hayes led talks about his book the political spectrum, which looks at the history and communications policy. >> while we went into this political system for allocating spectrum rights, within a couple of years, regulators at the commission are renewing licenses, but very carefully noting that propaganda stations will not be allowed. in fact from early on, 1929, you had left wing stations, if i can use that political term, owned chicago, thein the socialists who bought a station near new york city. they wanted for political purposes and free speech, they wanted to espouse their opinions. these were immediately dubbed propaganda stations by the regulators, so when they were renewed, they were told to very careful about exposing their opinions. it got eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> next on c-span, this year's commencement addresses from colleges and univ

we need to get green energy, like the hoover dam. it's american money.goes to the hoover dam for americans. ,ost: when it comes to industry the shareholders at exxon mobil asked questions about climate rules as well. diane cardwell with a story saying the majority of exxon mobil shareholders and the reversal have voted in favor of a more open and detailed analysis of the risks posed by policies aiming to stem climate change. the company's annual shareholder --ting on wednesday 10 is up next -- ken is up next in washington, d.c. he is unsure. sure --i'm certainly of these. place ace.f pe if we are global leaders, you would think we would want to stay in that position. pollution is deadly for the environment. it has harmful, poisonous effects on the environment. oursidering not only ar bodies are environments, if we take in a certain amount of poison, it can harm us -- the earth itself is an environment. that's why we can breathe because it is an enclosed environment. considering all of these pollutants get into the air, they have no other place to go. se

it was pretty much under the control of edgar hoover. our wartime ally russia had morphed seamlessly to our enemy. the fbi responded with a campaign of widespread domestic surveillance. cia and nsa joined in the act citing the possibility of foreign involvement and domestic movements even though that was never proven and gradually over a period of decades the specter of foreign communist became the basis for infiltration, systematic harassment of a range of social justice and political movements with a particular target on civil rights, activism and war protest. at the same time, leaders were able to use intelligence agencies unchecked surveillance powers to big up dirt on opponents, specificky journalists and enemies and the like. some of us, many of us are too young to remember that time even if we did live through some of it and it's difficult for us to imagine what it would be like to be afraid to speak your mind about politics or about politicians although i do think that muslim americans in the country are getting a taste of it now

j edgar hoover is afraid of a scandal.n, he was insecure in his position as a new director. he put together an undercover team, most interestingly, one of the undercover operatives was an american indian. probably the only one in his bureau. they ultimately follow the money to try to determine who was profiting from these murders of the families. that might lead them directly back into the house. her own husband and the husband's uncle were behind the killings. after she had had two children with this man, this man had married into the family with a toy calculating plot systematically murdered family members so that the inheritance would go towards him and his uncle who was the most dominant and powerful figure in this county. king of the osage hills. >> where did you find all this information? >> it took many archives, a lot of time. i tried to end the descendents of both the murderers and the victims who were able to provide me both oral histories and stories and trails of evidence. i tried down molly burkart's granddaug