mr. ward, did you want to address -- >> guest: i thought that was an exemplary answer. >> host: thanks for getting up with us on "the washington journal." >> caller: hello. it looks to me like theodore roosevelt was hyperactive. was this due to possibly oxygen shortage due to his asthma? was there any sign of meningitis or pneumonia when he was a child? >> guest: i don't think so. i think it had to do with this -- he was many things, and one of them was a depressive. and in order to keep from the dark, the darkness from descending on him, he was almost obsessively active. and part of the reason he got so much done was he couldn't bear not to do things. >> guest: you know, dell trues, you watched last night, so you know there's this amazing phrase that he says "black care can rarely sit behind a rider whose pace is fast enough," which is a way of saying you can outrun your demons. and i think because that branch of the family was so susceptible to things like alcoholic and mental health, mental

. >> mr. ward, do you have a different answer? answer to that question but he to be delivered in a classified setting. >> turkey seems to me, appears extent,mplicit, to some of allowing foreign fighters to flow through turkey into syria. would you weigh in on your opinion of what the government of turkey, their position is on foreign fighters going through turkey into syria? ambassador? >> turkey is a very important partner of ours in the region. we share very important common interests with them. we have a shared interest in seeing a political settlement in , aia that removes assad shared interest in combating the terrorist organizations operating in syria and iraq, shared interest in dealing with the humanitarian crisis, and also in promoting stability in iraq -- >> i understand that but that's not my question. my question is, is the government of turkey complicit in allowing foreign fighters to go to their country and fight for isil? >> i was trying to explain some of the perspective on this problem. the turks have more than on

. >> mr. ward, do you have a different answer? >> there is an answer to that question but he to be delivered in a classified setting. >> turkey seems to me, appears to be complicit, to some extent, of allowing foreign fighters to flow through turkey into syria. would you weigh in on your opinion of what the government of turkey, their position is on foreign fighters going through turkey into syria? ambassador? >> turkey is a very important partner of ours in the region. we share very important common interests with them. we have a shared interest in seeing a political settlement in syria that removes assad, a shared interest in combating the terrorist organizations operating in syria and iraq, shared interest in dealing with the humanitarian crisis, and also in promoting stability in iraq -- >> i understand that but that's not my question. my question is, is the government of turkey complicit in allowing foreign fighters to go to their country and fight for isil? >> i was trying to explain some of the perspective on this problem.

mr. albert for many years, and finally one day when i was just about to graduate from high school, i got a call from charlie ward, who was mr. albert's administrative assistant, and he asked me how i would feel about being the first woman page. well, needless to say, i was finally ecstatic about this. i said, well i'll have to ask my parents first. he said, well, mr. albert has already spoken the to your parents and it's okay with them. and i said absolutely. so that's how it began. >> and by the latter 1970s. it's about half and half females, half males, and it's in the early 1980s that we have the first female based on her grades in the capitol page school elevated to the speaker's page, which was a real accomplishment for the girls of the day. but they're a pretty late addition to the history of the page program. technology was always changing the job of the pages. whether it was the telegraph or the telephone, which obviated telegraph pages, so technology by the latter 20th century, particularly in the computer age, the hand held smart phone age begins to obviate the tasks that pages had taken. the need for

mrs. roosevelt. >>host: peter is up next. you are on with can burns and jeffrey ward.>>caller: tell me please how much of an influence george frederick hagel had on harvard and also on teddy roosevelt and fdr. thank you. >>guest: i am not sure about that. his favorite student purportedly was a man named john augustus roebling traveled to the united states and would eventually build, design, and not live to see his son complete the building of the greatest engineering feat of the 19th century, the brooklyn bridge, a hugely important show for oscar and the academic model basically took over the american academic model at the end of the 19th century. i don't think you can draw straight lines between the philosophy of hazel and theodore or certainly not franklin roosevelt. >>host: i i agree. on our line for democrats. good morning. >>caller: good morning, and thank you for taking my call. thank you and give you kudos for your time. i thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed your depiction of the dust bowl. it knocked me to my knees because it really showed what true poverty could be

so, moving for ward, we went in for a pcn committee and at which time, mr. livington he revealed, and this is despite many meetings and discussions, e-mails, that he will be pursuing a type 48 license, and for those, for the people who don't know what a type 48 license is, very different from 41, which is what he is secured which is a beer one license, 48 is a full spirit's license and a 48 license into the tender loin is a very, very big considering the over saturation of alcohol in the neighborhood a lot of people were disturbed that no one knew about this, when it was revealed in this public forum and very soon he abandoned this pursuit for the 48 license but i wanted to note that this was the first and a few surprises that we had during this journey that we have been on. and at the pcn hearing, it was suggested that mr. livingston before a decision was made on any recommendation by the committee, that he go out and perform adequate and complete community out reach. so in response to that, he secured a consultant and engaged me to meet with my community a

mr. land tkpwo*eg langone i would check myself into the psychiatric ward. >> and james, you are right cavutoimpressive republican governors with better records on which to run. run. >> rude remarks, we better talk to alex who came away with a different impression of that interview. cavuto, you gutless rhino, whore, you could not even tro to challenge this billionaire boob. are you in that much love with your governor, you would just clam up? up? go dry up. and then e-mail. marianne. i challenge him to walk around trenton, new jersey at night. henry. today's show with your italian friend about christie was one of the loseiest of all-times, you are the worst, your gets should just walk out, i pity you. calvin, if sony can pull a stupid movie from theaters how is it rodger ailes condition pull your stupid ass off of air, once and for all? back to this carter in georgia, wait a minute not that carter? retire, have you become a crashetty -- old man like that dude in up -- oh, up the movie. >> how is it you get all these great guests, why do they come on? >> and finally, nick, i was shocked to hea

ward 8 , representing since 2005. of many a life accomplishments -- and we have just heard a few of them -- mr. is most well-known for a few minute videotape. i like to usethe time this aspects explore other of your life that he did not know about until i read your book. for instance, one thing that really surprised me was you were one of the first black eagle scout in memphis. as a mother to eagle scout, i would like to ask you -- i bet gotten this question -- what was your favorite merit badge and what did you learn from scouting? >> good evening. let me get that out of the way. i think it was life-saving and swimming. and camping, and birdwatching. was a girl watching or birdwatching? >> birdwatching. they did have a merit badge in girl watching. >> i think they do now, and my son got it. did you feel you learn something from the boy scouts that helped propel you through university and into your life? >> i learned quite a bit. i learned leadership skills. i went to nasty and resilience. and all those e, things. as long as, getting along with people. i went to the jamboree in new mexico, and

mr. foster, sharing the story of his son's death, helps relieve his pain. he spoke to the wards for more than an hour. >> i'll keep trying until there's no breath left in me because the cycle needs to stop. if you don't begin to look at the cycle and touch the cycle, try to impact it, it just continues to spiral. >> one of the gang bangers involved in shooting evan had once been incarcerated at stark. one of his former dorm mates also convicted of murder raised his hand to speak to foster. >> on behalf of all of us, i want to apologize. you know what i mean, for the mentality that we grew up with, the state of mind that we're in and the decisions that we make to make that kind of action or take that kind action towards other human beings. on behalf of the men that are incarcerated, i want to apologize for that. and thank you for sharing that with us. >> my reaction was sincere appreciation that he could be that sensitive or that charitable and take, in an odd sort of way, some ownership or some responsibility for the maladaptive actions that this other person did. my son evan wa

ward eight at thanksgiving. he sent a tweet that says, "i could do more. i wish i could do more. but i will do all i can." i remember the first time i met mr. barry.] embodied all of the characteristics of a prize fighter. he was a towering man, tall, fine, smart. swaggerd with a certain until the day he died. terms,d his life on his his way, until the day he died. he had an unbridled confidence. he was unlike anybody i have ever known. it was that confidence that took him to the mayor's office in our nations capital. that withing proof smarts, persistence, opportunities were few for the men and women of color of his time, but he persevered. he showed everybody it was possible to rise, it was possible to lead. marion did that without ever losing sight of who he was or where he came from or what his responsibility was to the struggle. we know this. sometime after martin had a or president obama gave us hope, marion barry provided opportunity. [applause] we have heard about his summer youth program. i am going to work every day very hard to make sure every summer the children of the district of columbia know that the mayors summer youth program was