so, roosevelt and taft have a falling out during taft's presidency. roosevelt is off in africa a game hunting and people are writing to him. you have got to come back. the republican party is coming apart at the seams. taft is doing things you won't like. he is backtracking on the environment. teddy roosevelt was a big environmentalist. so teddy roosevelt comes back. he decides to run against taft in the primaries but the primaries then are not winding in 1912. and so, taft gets the nomination in 1912 and people approach teddy roosevelt about running on a third hardy ticket and he says i will do it, but if you can raise money. to big-money men come along. he raises several million dollars and he kicks off his campaign by using the expression my hat is in the ring. this was coined by teddy roosevelt and he runs as the bull moose progressive. now he ends up, he gets a higher percent of the vote than any other third-party candidate. he gets close to 28% of the vote. taft is 22% and because of this split in the republican party, woodrow wilson becomes pre

taft is 22%. and because of the split in the republican party, woodrow wilson becomes president with 43% of the vote. so one of the ironies of roosevelt is that one of the things he objects to about taft, he can't hold the party together of but at the same time by roosevelt running, he splits the party. so wilson wins the election, um, and that's it for roosevelt. he dies in 1919. but he's considered one of the -- if you look at polls that historianses take about great presidents, he's up there. he's in the top five. so he was a great president during his first two terms in office. and i think he runs in 1912 mainly for ego reasons. he can't stand to be out of the limelight. let me make another point about third parties. one of the things we find about third parties is that during the 19th century ideas tend to animate third parties. then they go out, and they get candidates. what happens in the 20th century probably because of the growth of the media, because of radio, television, the ease of tra

so roosevelt and taft have a falling out during taft's

regardless and ifr disagree, this is a great conversation taft. let's bring this forward. i not know if this is a request for the city attorney. over the last 50 years, this is a good number, we have the voter signatures and the board of supervisors. we want to get a sense of how many of these are put forward with signature gathering. and not to that information today. this continues to thursday june 3. i would actually -- i was actually surprised i heard anything back on this. >> we have the initiatives that were put on by the members of the board, it is so very much in agreement. we did try to address that here, with appealing to voters initiation measure. this is something i will continue to take a look at. >> we have a simple downloads in the website, we were trying to see with this number look like. there were a few things -- we had a tax issue and things like that. there is no cost for the comptroller for those issues. i will send the analysis around your office and this will be posted where this is generally available. >> thank you for being here. i have one more qu

regardless and ifr disagree, this is a great conversation taft. let's bring this forward. i not know

coal mines labor should have had a seat at the table i mean all law why don't they well go back to taft hartley in forty seven go to reagan in eighty one it's again this whole philosophy this whole idea of oh well you know we don't regulate we don't you know us think of regulations we're on the you know and we don't need any. and it's it's frankly a crime and it's leading to deaths this is the labor. labor it's this power thing labor balances money basically the power of organized money is where corporations and the power of organized workers is what labor is and if there's not a balance between the two what you're going to see is what we're seeing right now are going to seize the corporations making massive profits in the c.e.o.'s taking huge paychecks and labor crashing from the middle class the working poor and you're going to see the c.e.o.'s living in luxury and the workers as happened in the massey mine dying in the coal mines. police officers have some explaining to do last week a video surfaced of washington d.c. police brutalizing a man in a wheelchair on a local street here ta

authorised slums and are entitled to government services like a lot or even after walking hours to get to a taft the water only runs at specific times for sometimes as little as ten minutes . while the people in the got by his community have managed to find a broken pipe in a gutter not far from their homes many indians are spending up to ten percent of their salaries to buy usable water water access isn't just a problem that affects people living in the slums actually thirty five percent of households in mumbai receive less than the desired hundred liters of water per person per day and many of those people live in middle class communities and. the lawn is in them by housewife despite living in a more modern apartment so wants to has to schedule her day around when she can get water or let up on if it worked out by that that we get water at four am for one and a half since we just get it for just one and a ha far we have to wake up early and get all our work done so want us to fill the tank on. her roof during the time the city gives her access to water and if she needs more than the chunk of w

i want to thank carol emma crosby who arranged this share and my lovely microphone and also jean taft who was instrumental in bringing me to this tend named for the great james michener of whom i am quite fund. and i would like to introduce you to a very interesting wall street event known as the auction rate scandal. auction rate securities scandal. before there was bernie madoff, before the mortgage fraud, before the september of 2008 melt down, there was the auction rate securities scandal. the auction rate securities scandal was the biggest scandal, the biggest fraud that wall street ever perpetuated up until that time. essentially it was a market fund just like your ordinary money market fund you find in debate or at your broker's. it was sold as completely safe, no problem, as good as treasury bonds, it will take you right to heaven, until it didn't. when it didn't there were $336 billion in cash frozen overnight by every bank, brokerage and securities dealer in the western world are none. it was take the money and run and that is what they did. they were not about to give it ba

with very exciting to see because there is now a coalition building of people who believe in a true taft goldwater ron paul ronald reagan even conservative foreign policy that's we're not going to impose liberal big government on nations all over the world tell us about that how's that come into play in the in the coalition that you're building well you certainly see it there a lot of people polling shows you that two thirds of american conservatives and tea partiers republicans think that everything that was done up until now in afghanistan was a good idea and we should do something dramatically different the future very interesting really what happened last week. and what i think you're seeing is people who don't want to dish the sacrifice that was made by soldiers today don't even want to second guess bush on the station to go and that's sad but ok that's sad we don't do something different let's bring him into the spring i would say let's build a whole that i think that that's an opening for conservatives to say. what are we doing what is winning look like and why are we doing that's

says he became bored with high school and decided at the age of 14 to start taking online courses at taft college where he has now earned an associate's social science degree. >> it doesn't take being a generous to accomplish this. it just takes hard work and determination. >> spencer will start at cal state bakersfield as a junior where he plans to study political science or business. >>> californians are reporting a little less stress than a year ago. but the distinction goes to hawaii where only 30% of residents say they experience daily stress. california comes in 24 place with 39% of us reporting significant stress. that's down 1% from 2009. the most stressed outstate is utah where 45% of people say they are stressed out. >> well, marin county has the most unemployment rate in the bay area and one of the lowest in the entire state. but don't let those numbers fool you. as allly rasmussen tells us there are people in need in the bay. >> some potato. roar record a helping of food and relief for this will marin county mother. >> i have an 8-year-old son and i am unemployed right now. at

. >>> matthew sikelski died on january 29th after officers shot him on taft avenue in oakland's rock ridge district. someone called police saying a man was harassing people. police arrived to find sikelski was wearing camouflage and say he wouldn't drop what appeared to be an assault rifle so the officers fired. it turned out to be a toy. >> our desperate need to know the truth is magnified by the discrepancies between the official police version of the events and what we now know that police shot matthew not only in the front but in his back. >> oakland police failed to respond to several requests for comments. >>> someone open od fire on a driver on interstate 780 last night. now, the highway patrol is trying to track down the man who pulled the trigger. terry mcsweeney reports. >> reporter: about 8:00 last night a white buick pulls up in front of mcdonalds. the passenger opens the driver's door and helps the shooting victim across the parking lot. er in surveillance camera shows him collapsing on the floor in front of dozens of shocked customers. >> someone screamed oh, my god, he

. >>> high water may force workers to shut down the waterford 3 nuclear plant in taft, louisiana. now, if the mississippi river reaches 27 feet at taft, flooding would overrun the water intake system that cools the nuclear turbines. it will be close. the crest right now is expected to be just inches shy of 27 feet. >>> we rarely see this in taiwan. amateur video showing a tornado near taipei, the capital, on the northern end of the island. the twister picked up a van and dropped it on a motorcycle. reports say the tornado was 20 stories tall, lasted about two minutes. >>> libyan opposition leaders are due at the white house in just a couple of hours. the delegation does not expect it to meet with president obama but rather the national security adviser. the opposition wants to be recognized as the legitimate government of libya and wants also access to frozen libyan funds. >>> well, the official field for the republican presidential nomination, it doubled today from one to two. two candidates now. texas congressman ron paul formally announced that he is running for the white house

it with a knockdown drag out fight between taft and eisenhower. dirksen gets on the podium and looks at tom do we and says we followed you before and you took us down the road to defeat. not the things you see these days. i didn't know what this was about. i knew something cool was going on. for me this is where i should stay. the same reason, mariano rivera should not play third base. i'm not comparing myself to him but you ought to know what you think you are ok at the hand just stay there. it is tough enough talking about what you think you know something about. there are couple of more books and they are in this arena. i appreciate you coming. >> this event took place at politics bookstore in washington d.c.. this is politics-pros.com. >> c-span's local content vehicles with st. petersburg cable provider white house networks traveled around the area to look at the city's literary theme. st. petersburg is the first of eight southeastern cities that will feature between now and the end of the year. >> how do you think the book industry has chang

robert taft is their opponent. from the right and the left. there are other things -- eisenhower saw him as a like-minded figure. what he didn't see is he grew up in the california progressive division. eisenhower was a columbia university -- after the war very much interest in big business and sort of traditional east coast republican party. it is a much different tradition and one that didn't really have a kind of national architect. it wasn't so much that warned changed in years to chief justice is eisenhower misapprehended his politics at the outset. as warren's own political development, scott polk who is the best scholar, we had a dinner leon and he pointed out that warren is a rare person who got better in every job he did. that is true. warren started his public life and was concerned with one issue, law enforcement in one area, then he ran for attorney general and as attorney general didn't broaden his range of issues so much as broad a beaten put upon which he practiced and egos to become governor and forced to deal with social issue

to the convention convention-- republican convention it was the knockdownÑixd drag out by between taftandÑi eisenhower and getting up to look at tom dooley and says we followed the before and you took us down the road to defeat. not what you see at a convention these days. i did not know what this was about. they talked about you new rule but i knew something cool was going on. because of the same reason rivera should not play third base. [laughter] sewed just say there it is tough enough to talk about. [laughter] i have a couple more books of modicum but they are in this arena. we appreciate you coming. [applause] . . >> he discusses this period and the lessons it may lend to current u.s. foreign policy with angela stent, the director of georgetown center of east european studies. ♪ >> host: i'm angela stent, director of the center for east european studies at georgetown university, and it's my great pleasure to introduce to you frederick kempe, author of berlin, 1961. the most dangerous place on earth which is a truly gripping book. frederick kempe is the ceo and president of the atl

my name is gene taft, and i'm a member of the book festival organizing committee. gaithersburg is a city that proudly sponsors the arts and culture, and we are pleased to bring you this event free of charge. a couple of quick announcements, and we'll get started. please silence all your electronic devices that make any sort of noise. your feedback is crucial to helping us improve the event, so, please, fill out the survey after. you have a chance to win a nook color e-reader. we'd like to welcome our friends as c-span and the audience across the country. if you're going to ask a question, please, come and stand up at the microphone and speak loudly and clearly. i've been in the book business for two decades, and over that time i've met a lot of wonderful, smart people, and i'm pleased to say five of them are assembled on the stage to discuss the often-frustrating industry that we love. next week in new york city people from all corners of the book industry will gather at bookexpo america, the annual book convention, to discuss every aspect of the industry. l i susp

this in effect establishes for the first time since the taft-hartley act was passed in 1947 the idea that it is against the federal law for a company that is producing in a union state to move -- to expand its facilities in a right-to-work state of which there are 22. what we're talking about is the first new plant in 40 years to build large airplanes. the boeing company builds most of its planes in washington state. it's the nation's largest exporter. it has 170,000 employees around the world. 155,000 of them are employees in the united states. these are good jobs. but at the hearing on thursday, the general counsel of boeing said that boeing expects to lose the appeal of the general counsel's -- well, of the decision of the general counsel when it's heard before an administrative judge on june 15, and then they expect to lose the appeal of that decision to the national labor relations board because he assumes that the general counsel is following the same view of the law that the president's appointees on the national labor relations board are following. and then he expects to win

taft cuff host: the detroit, sunday free press has a story at the bottom , below the fold, saying that crime lab in detroit has a disturbing new trend. accused in recent years of making big mistakes. host:, but hampshire, jim, independent line. good morning. good morning. caller: you are a suburban post. i wanted to echo the gentleman from kansas. i simply do not believe that sort of claim. i cannot believe that foreigners would infiltrate and tried to commit voter fraud in that way. consider the most widely and well documented exhibit of voter fraud out there, the five members supreme court that did not have to show their identification and they hijacked the 2000 election. thank you. host: pete, democratic line. caller: i have been voting in the same place for 30 years. even if there are new people, they only look at my signature. this is where they try to pull down the boats. this thing is controlled by republicans. trying to keep people from voting. i am sure that it says somewhere in the article that minorities tend to vote democratic. republicans know that if they can hold the boa

last year and oil spill went on taft for nearly three months and recently japan suffered a devastatingearthquake in the nuclear crisis. new economic powers in china, india, brazil, became even stronger competitors and the housing market collapsed and the global financial crisis plunged the united states to the worst recession of the great depression. the debt crisis in europe rather the market. america's own fiscal situation and the concern we won't achieve the political consensus required is worrying people around the world to look at the u.s. to lead. it's been an eventful decade to say the least. the global economy has really been reset. but you know you're ready for this. your college malveaux is learning for a living. you are ready for this crazy world. but first, today everybody in this room, every graduate is going to make a choice. will you be a cynical complainer, a victim who fears the future while blaming others, believing that is the easiest and most popular path or will you be a hard-working problem solver who is dedicated to creating a new and better world. we need to sol

going to tell you where you have to locate your plants, you're going to override section 14b of the taft-hartly act which was created in 1947 which has created an environment which really has permitted american manufacturing to succeed. all one has to auto is to read david halverstam's book, "the reckoning" of the late 1980's to see in our entire auto industry, if it were still locked into detroit, that it wouldn't be as competitive as it is today, cars made in america. i know that firsthand because i saw it happen when nissan came to tennessee, they didn't hire a bunch of people from japan to run the plant. they went to detroit. they got ford executives who knew how to -- who knew how to run a plant but weren't allowed to by the environment there and they put them at a start-from-scratch place and they created the most efficient automobile plant in north america. and we welcome also the general motors plant and the united auto workers to their spring location in tennessee. that's what a right-to-work state is, it's where you can choose to join a union or not to join a union. both can operate.

yesterday senator graham and senator demint and i introduced legislation to reaffirm section 14-b of the taft-hartly act to permit states if they so choose to have a right-to-work law creating a competitive environment in which -- in which we can create more jobs in this country. this is in reaction to an action by the national labor relations board that would basically say that -- that the boeing company couldn't expand into a nonunion state. and i ask unanimous consent to include in the record following my remarks an editorial in "the wall street journal," today called "the congress versus the nlrb." the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: but, as important as it is for us to say what we don't like about the obama administration's job policy, it's even more important for us to say what republicans will do to create an environment to make it easier and cheaper to create private-sector jobs. senator portman of ohio has a strong background as a budget director, as a congressman, a as -- as a trade negotiator in the bush administration and a good understanding representing one of our

relations act is, of course, the right to organize, the right to join a union, and of course under the taft-hartley bill some years later, the right not to join a union, if you zoo want to. so-called right-to-work states. so the protected activity in this case was the right to striefnlg the national labor relations act protects that activity. organized workers in a union have the right to strike. it is a protected activity. a company cannot retaliate against workers for exercising that right. so if -- if -- i say "if" -- if the boeing company did in fact move a production line to another state in retaliation for the workers that exercised their right to strike in washington, that would be illegal. illegal for boeing to do that. unlawful. i said "if" because i am not here today taking a side in the case. i'm not certain where the truth lies. this is for the tryer of fact and the tryer of law. so when a case comes to the national labor relations board, a complaint like this, they investigate it. well, the national labor relations board investigated under the general counsel's office the civil service