john the evangelist in san francisco, father richard smith.her smith, let me begin with you, you were there today, but as i understand it were not permitted in even though you, a shareholder. do you know why not? >> we were told that there were simply too many people already in the room, and that it had reached the maximum capacity. we had been standing there for a couple of hours. some of our people had been standing there for a lot longer than i had. and we were all turned away. we found out many people were secretly shuttled into a restaurant next door, and brought in through a secret entrance. when we discovered this and tried to enter through that end trans, we were turned away so they started filtering anybody who might look like a protester out. even though he had our shares in hand and had every legal right to be there. >> between the collar and your demeanor i'm amazed they wouldn't let you in. [ laughter ] >> what drew you to this protest. what do you want wells fargo to do? >> take responsibility for the pain and damage they have ca

interestingly, as part of that cutts catastrophe, richard smith, another neighbor, and bankruptcy trustee sold another property of mr. cutts. on e street near 14th to our patriarch lynch for a new residents in livery. the early decade was a time for growing slavery and oppression in the united states. william wormley, one of the sons of lynch, was a founding member of laurel lodge number 7 of the free masons in 1823. he and his associates, john cook and francis thatcher, formed columbian harmony society to establish a cemetery for free blacks. he also was the district of columbia agent for william lloyd garrison's abolition publication the liberator in the 130s. around that same time, he built a schoolhouse for his sister, mary, on i street between 15th and 16th for the education of free blacks which was damaged in the riots of 1835. that would be right on the next street from where we are today. anecdotely, it should be noted that, francis scott key of star spangled banner fame, who happened to be a vestrymen in this very same church, was the district attorney at the time and was tasked

father richard smith told us the 99% is still pushing for change. >> it's absolutely critical. wells fargo, we have been in conversations since 2008. what's clear is they're not going to budge until they absolutely have to. they've really dug in their heels unfortunately. what it is going to take is people, ordinary people, little people like us, standing up and saying we're not going to take this any more. this is simply not fair, defies all the standards of human decency, we're going to stand up and speak our word. >> wells fargo also released a statement saying in part wells fargo makes efforts to keep people in their homes. over the pass year, less than 2% of owner occupied loans in the portfolio resulted in foreclosures, wells fargo is a responsible corporate citizen that paid $6 billion in taxes for 2011. now, that meeting is expected to get started we're told within the next hour or so. so far, the crowd is getting larger and larger, but it has been fairly quiet from this end. as we said, right before we came on, we did see a couple of people blocking the doorway led the

. >> in may of 2011, historian richard norton smith led a 10-day bus tour from asheville, north carolina to austin, texas, the group stopped at several presidential and historic sites along the route. one of the stops was the andrew johnson homestead in greenville, tennessee. a site owned and operated by the national park service. johnson served as vice president under president lincoln. and succeeded him when lincoln was assassinated. here's park guide daniel luther portraying president johnson and telling the story how andrew johnson met abraham lincoln. >> in 1847, i went into the 30th congress for my third term representing the people of the first district, and while i was there i met an extremely tall raw-boned young man representing the prairie state of illinois. and his name was abraham lincoln. and we fell into conversation and i introduced myself and told him that i was from northeast tennessee and he replied that he had relatives in northeast tennessee and perhaps i knew some of them. he identified his great uncle isaac as having owned a farm. at which his father thomas lincoln

earlier this year historian richard norton smith led a bus tour from asheville, north carolina to texas. one of the stops was the james k. polk ancestral home. the only surviving home except the white house in which the 11th president lived. before serving as president polk served as speaker of the house of representatives and as governor of tennessee. he was president from 1845 to 1849, and died of cholera three months after leaving the presidency. john holtzzapple led this tour. >> come on in. we can open this other door. come on in. i think we can fit. i'll go ahead and get started. i know i was trying to introduce myself to all of you when you were getting here, if i missed any of you i'm john holtzzaple, director of the james polk home. the home was built by president polk's father samuel in 1816. i think one of the first brick residences in what was a frontier town of 300 people. it's kind of odd talking about tennessee as the west but it was in the early 1800s. when this house was built columbia had dirt roads. someone else coming in? come right on in, ma'am. okay. there were dir

richard norton smith, who will be chairing this panel, is a nationally renowned author. between 1987 and 2003 he served as director of the herbert hoover presidential library. the dwight d. eisenhower presidential library, the ronald reagan presidential library and the gerald ford presidential library. so he has presidential library experience, and in 2003 he was appointed the founding director of the abraham lincoln presidential library in springfield, illinois. he is the author, a commentator on c-span, pbs, and he's now working on a biography of nelson rockefeller. on our panel today is bess abell. bess as president johnson said a kentucky girl who can walk with kings and prime ministers, maintained the common touch but could also lecture the president. she was five years white house social secretary. miss abell organized dinners for kings and prescriptions, planned two white house weddings, and advanced presidential trips from manhattan to manila. she designed and carried out to the last detail events as different as an lbj ranch barbecue, state dinners in bangkok, a

visit their website at nps.gov/anjo, and to learn more about tours with historian and author richard norton smith, go to president's&patriots.com. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >>> abolitionist john willis me nard was. elected to congress in 1868. although he was never seated, he was the first african-american who address the house chamber. we heard more about him from phillip magness from george mason university, and matthew wasniewski, historian of the u.s. house of representatives. this is about an hour from the u.s. capital historical society. >> before we begin, before i introduce the speakers, let me introduce congressman danny davis of illinois to make a welcome to the audience. congressman. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. and let me just say how delighted i am to be here. as a matter of fact, the last time i was at a meeting, i was so inspired by a woman who made a presentation of a book that she has written that i have been trying to get that book into school districts all around illinois and other places throughout the country. and act

visit their website at nps.gov/anjo, and to learn more about tours with historian and author richard norton smith, go to president's & patriots.com. you're watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. >>> between 1861 and 1868, clara barton, known as the angel of the battlefield and founder of the american red cross, lived in this washington, d.c. building. she employed 12 clerks on the third floor in her missing soldier's office where they received over 60,000 letters from families searching for lost sons and husbands. in 1996, richard lyons, a carpenter for the generaler is verses administration, was helping to prepare the building for demolition when he discovered this office sign in the attic. american history tv visited the building on seventh street. to learn about the missing soldiers office and to hear the story of richard lehr yons who worked alone for months to save the building from demolition. >> hi. i'm susan rosenvold and i work for the national museum of civil war medicine in frederick, maryland and have a great project i'm working on i'd like to give you a

general counsel, i am honored to acknowledge the presence of mark per se, sharon block, and richard griffin. patricia smith, the solicitor of labor, john lund. i probably will come as well as a longtime colleague and friend, the assistant attorney general. thank you for attending this afternoon. if we are going on 24 years, i have worked for the union that represents baseball players. and for going on 24 years i have heard "that is great. it is not like you work for a real union. you get to hang out with jeter or zimmerman. it is part of your job you have to go to the all-star game and world series of recent year." i will can see there are benefits to working with this union. at the same time, we always have been and remains a real labor union. our members make more money than most. our guys have a higher public profile. at bottom, we do what every union does. we attempt to further our member's interests and to protect member rights through the process of collective bargaining. collective bargaining as an institution took somebody shots of the past year. in wisconsin, most notably and other places the righ

walter mondale, robert dole, frank church, john sherman cooper, eugene mccarthy, george, margaret smith, richard russell, george mcgovern, william that's mired and barry goldwater. that is quite a cast of characters and those are names i think that many older americans will remember today. of those names, which names pop out to you and which have impressed you the most pacs >> guest: let me say first of full disclosure the narrative of the book focuses on the last years of the great senate, the late 70's and it is backlit by what has happened before. my basic argument is there was a great senator from the early 60's through the 70's so all the people the you indicated were a part of that. the once the standoff prominently in my memory would include hubert humphrey who was perhaps one of the greatest centers of all time although i think somewhat of a tragic figure because of what happened to him during the vietnam war when he was vice president. he really invented the modern senate. the role to some extent. he communicated the senate to the public on the disarmament and civil rights particularly,

non-profit boards and serves as a trustee of the richard nixon foundation, the nixon center and the eisenhower medical center. after graduating from smith college, she earned a master of arts from catholic university of america. when david's book "eisenhower at war" and julie's book, "pat nixon, the untold story" were published in 1986, it was the first time a husband and wife each had a book appearing simultaneously on the "new york times" nonfiction best-sellers list. please join me in well coming mark and david and julie eisenhower. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> both julie and david, welcome. we're delighted to have you here tonight. actually i should say welcome back because you are among the very special guests of this library when we opened our doors on may 22nd, 1971, and you accompanied your mother and father here. your father was president at the time. i wonder if you have any memories of that day. >> i remember it like yesterday. linda is here. lizzie is here. harry middleton i think is here. harry, i can't see you through the lights but i'm looking for you, there he is, still teaching at the university of

smith, in front of the goal. and it is 1-0. second period. same score. brad richards. derek stepan, beats craig anderson. the rangers find a way, after they struggled mightily. rangers with the five-on-three. the blast from richards. it's 2-1 for the men in blue. time winding down in the third. jason spezza, shot and save by henrik lundqvist in front. lundqvist argues the call. it went to review. it went off of neal's skate. senators down 3-2. last chance. they don't get it done. game seven in new york, on thursday. >>> the rangers, hosting the yankees, down in texas. there's pudge rodriguez. throws it out to second. top of the first, bases loaded. curtis granderson. a single that would drive in derek jeter. yankees up 2-0. c.c. sabathia on the mound. he slowed down the rangers' bats just enough to allow his guys to get the upper hand. and alex rodriguez gets the three-run shot. yankees, 6-1, in the fifth. top of the sixth, jeter to the opposite field. jeter, four for five on the game. yankees win it, 7-4. >>> thursday night, primetime, it's day one of the nfl draft. you can see it on espn. you can see t

live on your radio and current tv >> richard trumka in studio with us yesterday got some good props from facebook from sky wolfe, neil smith morning, just discovered your show on current. richard trumka is right about this country needing more infrastructure projects for jobs and consider that hundreds of thousands of jobs would be created by legalizing hemp and marijuana. absolutely. and on -- >> sky wolfe. >> mostly this morning about the masters, carl says get out of here and shut your f'ing face before somebody shuts it for you. we are members and we are allowed to admit whoever we want want. all right, carl. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ ♪ >> this thursday april 5th, good to see you this morning. this is the full court press. welcome to the full-court press, your new morning show on current t.v. i am bill press, liberal and proud of it. good to have you with us today as we check from the nation's capitol, around the country and around the globe. my question first of all, this morning is, okay yesterday president obama holds a prayer meeting at the whitehouse. they talked about how important prayer is to him in his

but it was while in detroit that smith suffered a series of devastating losses. >> so it was robert and richard 1989. the following year so did her piano player richard soul. in 1994, on mapplethorpe's birthday her husband died of heart failure. a month later, she lost her brother, todd, to a heart attack. >> i was so exhausted basically all i could do was get my kids ready for school. i couldn't do anything. i couldn't write. i couldn't draw. and i was miserable. >> reporter: then one day she picked up a polaroid camera and took a snapshot. >> it made me happy. and i thought, well, here is a way that i can create that doesn't take a lot of physical effort. then i just got hooked. >> reporter: smith refused to dwell in her grief. >> if we listen, the dead will speak to us. they will come to us. they will counsel us. they will fill us with their love. i know. believe me. i got a whole bunch of them. >> reporter: she got help from unexpected places. on the valentine's day after her husband's death, she was sitting alone after putting her two children to bed. >> i answered the phone. this voice sa

have the richard russell senator at the university of georgia and you have the hubert humphrey school of public affairs at the university of minnesota. how many are there? >> margaret chase smith library in maine. >> have you been to these places? >> yeah. one of the things that i'm happiest about in recent years is the establishment of something called the association of centers for the study of congress, and to answer your specific question there are about 40 of those centers. basically surround the papers of a significant senator. people can go there and do research. but these centers need to talk to one another because they all have common problems. and so now they are working together. >> okay. i can hear somebody saying who pays for that, and i know the money comes out over here, and why is this necessary? >> no, no, in that case, that's entirely private. >> some of these centers have federal money that have either been given to them to start them or some aspect of it. >> it's hard to generalize about that, some comes from leftover campaign cash when a senator retires. some of it is state money, some of the asset universities agree to take on these papers and it's not on

leave, apparently, to handle a new orleans saints matter, but dee smith, the executive director of the nfl players association and richardon, his longtime general counsel were here. i want to thank the executive director of the major league soccer association, john newman, judy scott, general counsel to the seiu, pat she man sky, i'm also honored to acknowledge here the presence of mark pierce, the chairman of the national labor relations board, sharon block and richard a griffin, nlrb members, les hatser sitting over here. patricia smith, solicitor of labor. john lund, assistant secretary of labor. i proudly welcome as well a longtime colleague and friend, virginia seitz, assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. thanks to all of them and to all of you for attending this afternoon. for going on 24 years, i have worked for the union that represents major league baseball players. and for going on 24 years, i've heard that's great, mike, but it's not like you work for a real union. [laughter] come on, you get to hang out with derek jeter or jose pa tease that or -- batista or ryan zimmerman. it's part of

of mark pierce, the labor relations board, sharon glock and richard griffin and the members, the executive secretary over here, patricia smith akaka john, i probably will come as well a longtime colleague and friend, the virginia assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. thanks to all of them and all of you for attending this afternoon. we are going on 24 years i've worked for the union that represents major league baseball players and for going on 24 years, i've heard that's great but it's not like to work for a real union. you get to hang out with derek jeter or jose batista it's part of your job you have to go to the game and you have to go to the world series every single year. i will concede there are been a to working for the team but the same time, the mlbpa is a real team. our guys have a higher public profile. but at bottom, the mlbpa does everything it does. we attempt to further the members' interests and protect members rights through the process of collective bargaining. collective bargaining as an institution took body shots over the past year in wisconsin most notably other places the rights

chairman of the national labor relations board, sharon ploch and richard griffin and members, the nlrb executive sitting over here, patricia smith, solicitor of labor and john lund, assistant secretary of labor. i probably welcome as well longtime colleague and friend, virginia assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. thanks to all of them and all of you for attending this afternoon. >> for going on 24 years, i've worked for the union that represents major league baseball players coming and for going on 24 years, i've heard that's great, mike, but it's not like to work for a real union. come on, you get to hang out with derek jeeter or josÉ but he stuck or brian zimmerman. it's part of your job you have to go to the all-star series every year. i will concede there are benefits to working for this union. [laughter] but i will insist that at the same time the mlbta has always been and remains today a real labor union. members make more money than most. our guys have a higher public profile. but at bottom, the mlbpa does it every union does, we attempt to further our members interest and to protect our members' r