william howard taft. anything changed a century later? >> it doesn't sound like it. yeah, obviously people love money. want government to do things they want the government to do. people with little money do too. a lot of influence you have. if you have a lot of money obviously. and bryant was in favor of public finance in elections. he didn't want private individuals to give any money to elections. he realized that wasn't going to slide at the time. his idea at the time, was to publicize the donations that people give. make sure that it's above board. for example, in 1996, johnny rockefeller wrote a standard oil check for $250,000 and gave it to mark hanna and not known until after the election was over. it sounds ar kayian and he can on thetic today, but the best way to think about it bryan wanted cheaper money and more money in people's pockets and sfw rates to go down so people can borrow easily. >> he gets the nomination in 1896 and renominated in 1900. what happened in 1904? >> in 1904 the democrats decided to go with a less exciting candidate who they thought

and william howard taft elected in 1908. let's go back to something else that was i guess rather revolutionary. set up the debate that took place and how that occurred, technically speaking in 1908. >> there wasn't actually a debate the way we have debates now. but 1908 was the first time in which both candidates recorded speeches on wax cylinders, these things which are -- you can still hear very scratchy renditions of them, perhaps you'll play one that the library of congress owns some of these koeps. but this was the original short playing record. didn't last very long. they went into studios and they recorded them. this was -- bryan actually sold these too to campaign supporters. it was a way you could hear bryan, you could hear taft without them having to go out and speak to you directly. we take that for granted now. but this was a very new idea at the time. >> one of the campaign buttons of william jennings bryan in 1908. we're going to begin with the words of william howard taft followed by william jennings bryan. >>

it was a way to hear bryan and taft without speaking to you directly. of course, we take that for granted now, but this was a new idea at the time. >> one of the campaign buttons of william jennings bryan in 1908, we begin with the words of william howard taft followed by william jennings bryan. >> i had known a good many regular attendants in churn and distant members that religiously if you choose to use that term refuse to contribute to foreign makes. i did not realize the immense importance of foreign missions. the truth is we have to wake up in this country. we are not all there is in the world. there are lots besides us, and there are lots of people besides us that are entitled to our money and our sacrifice to help them on the in world. >> imperialism is the policy of an empire and it's different races living under varying forms of government. a republic cannot be an empire, for the public wrestles with the theory that government has their powers from the consent of govern and colonialism invites the theory. our experiment is colonialism has been

c-span: and on the other side is another robert taft. is that the robert taft that became senator.on of ... >> guest: no. no. that... c-span: that's not the same one? >> guest: no. that son did not become a senator. this one became the leader of the republicans in the senate and sought on more than one occasion to secure the nomination for president. c-span: on the other side of the page here we have -- i don't know what you would call this but it's robert taft again. isn't he the only -- you describe it the taft memorial that's up on the capitol why is that there and could that happen today? >> guest: well taft was... he was a powerful force in the senate. he was a great leader of his party. he came near being president upon. at least he sought to get the nomination. and he was a very influential senator. and he was chosen by a committee of senator's as one of the all time five great senators. and those five senators -- their pictures are in the medallions in the reception room just off the senate floor. c-span: what did his colleagues think was so great about him? >> guest: well

the part of the problem is that the opinion is, i don't want to fake too much fun of chief justice taft. we'll just leave it at that. the fundamental -- if the president has the power to appoint and the power to remove, chief justice taft and the then president of the united states thought those two powers together were all the president needed and he might have been right. because if the president can decide in whom he has confidence. if the president can decides often in very technical areas, for example monetary policy, this is the sort of tendency that caused me to be elected should have in this role. and if the president can then take somebody out when he loses confidence in that person, even if he doesn't understand what has gone wrong. he know that something has gone wrong, all the people really need to act when they elect the president is not do you know anything about monetary policy, do you know anything about emergency management, do you know anything about nuclear disarmament. but one, what is your basic world

[laughter] is saying he and ben adviser to every american president since taft. [laughter] about day 10 of the book tour this is only did number five. a freshman college roommate is here. by day number 10 you are a little punchy. merisel hierarchy of interviewers, npr and c-span of course. but there were cars honking in the background. [laughter] but in response i went into the studio the host was a hunch over over the and then to say you were the adviser to william howe word taft? [laughter] and said yes. yes i was. now going into the cro-magnon we could talk about that. >> but then invited back it was worth it. [laughter] here i stand before you. and new view a reprocess. but it is great to be back in washington. i can no longer be accused of being the inside the bill late elitist burper i am now the fine and a number five. this is lourdes washington losses and where i came to write speeches or george h. to be bush when he was vice president. but in washington the characters come us scoundrels my 10 to take after their author. reversed one add a tobacco lobbyis

and he looked up at me and said, you were an adviser to william howard taft? [laughter] and i was just punchy enough and said, yeah. yeah. yeah, i was. and so the brow now beetling into sort of a cro-magnon protuberance, he said, well, so we could talk about that? [laughter] and i said, yeah, yeah, we could talk about that. [laughter] and we did. [laughter] and i have not yet been invited back on that show, but it was, it was really well worth it. [laughter] so here i stand before you, adviser -- and so if any of you have questions about what it was like to work for william howard taft, i can help you with that. anyway, it is, it's grand to be back in washington. i lived here for 30 years. i moved back to connecticut last year. so i can no longer, charlie, be accused of being an inside-the-beltway elitist. [laughter] i am now an i-95 elitest. but i, um, this was -- washington was and always will be a very special place for me. i came down to write speeches for george herbert walker bush as when he was vice president. i write satire, and -- [laughter] here we a

joining us now is john taft himself, ceo. part of the royal bank of canada. also author of "stewardship." what's the lost culture? >> it is a culture where serving the needs of clients and furthering economic growth is the principle purpose of the financial institution. >> sit a prerequisite you must be using your own money? if i'm using other people's money, it is simply -- very hard to do what you are describing and i can make money, lot of other -- much easier way. >> i'm going to disagree with you right out of the chute. let's start with the whole concept of banking. you are taking money from depositors, imogen, large deposits. she expects she can call the bank and get her money back dollar for dollar tomorrow if she wants. >> she is very demand. >> here. >> here would be fine. then the bank takes that money and puts it out in a form of loans to the most -- rob. for years. five years. and we also take the risk, no offense, rob, that you might not be able to pay back the loan on time. so -- we are arbitraging your desire for safe short-term deposits, long-

he lost to taft. >> would you term president obama as a progressive candidate going into 2012? >> i would. the term liberal took over the term for progressive for a long time and now progressive is back being used again. there are huge differences between barack obama and woodrow wilson, of course, but they both do believe in using the government to a power of big business. >> and the person that we've skipped over here is franklin roosevelt it best ideas of the progressive area and some of his administrators cut their teeth in government. >> who is a democrat then. he didn't support it wilson and became part of his cabinet. >> you pointed out the four candidates that ran that year and all pretty prominent americans. why in the 100 years since we've had an election would that sort of fire power in terms of four separate parties and candidates? >> well, this goes back to the structure of the american party system. in most times the two parties were able to absorb discontent, either on the right or on the left to a large degree and convince enough voters that third parties don't

of labor, that's a more difficult task, but we need to find some way to repeal as much of the 1947 taftrtley law as is humanly possible. another interesting idea that's been put forth by the sent re foundation is to think about making the rights to organize a defined as a civil rights pass ledge slayings that would apply civil rights law to the right to organize. that way if somebody got fired for trying to join a union, he could actually sue his employer. >> right. fassing idea. i have not seen that tested in the courts. that would be an innovative approach to this. one of the historical points you make in your book is that carl marx of all people, obviously a sent sent re ago said the industrial revolution would lead to incredible divide in income distribution. that didn't happen until about 1970, income, there was a convergence of income only back in the neep 70s we began to see this. historically, why did we survive the industrial revolution and recently global trade and other factors have moved us this other way? >> it's baffling. you are right right. throughout much of the 20th se

have been increasingly hostile to labor organizing starting with the one nine hundred forty seven taft hartly law which parts of which labor has been trying to repeal ever since most recently with the card check bill that passed in congress that failed in congress a couple of years ago. reagan as you note. there crushed the patco union pac it was a public sector union so it doesn't have any direct relevance to what was happening for private sector unions but it was a very symbolic moment and at the same time and probably more meaningful in a practical sense was that reagan appointed the first blatantly anti union leader for the national labor relations board no republican before him that ever done that nobody had been quite so so. strongly opposed to. labor labor rights you know to remember back in at the time of the treaty of detroit in the early fifty's i have a quote my. from a president of the chamber of commerce it sounds like if you saw it today you would say oh that's a union leader who's saying that he was talking about what an important and necessary part of the economy labor

so the so the peak the collapse i guess just follow the taft hartley tester was kind of a slow acting poison on the labor movement that created the right to work for less states that's right and it just became more and more difficult to organize in my book i describe an attempt to organize a wal-mart in colorado and it's just heartbreaking because you can just see how thoroughly the deck is stacked against any attempt to unionize when when the company is big and powerful and does not want to light and is determined not to let unions in and. it's sometimes said that although it it is illegal to prevent workers from trying to organize unions the penalties are so slight that it is it makes no economic sense for the bosses to obey the law after world war two harry truman was whispering in the ear of the germans about how to put their economy and their country back together and written into their constitution is that any company that has over a thousand employees must have at least fifty percent of the members of their board be representatives of labor within the company those kind of inst

meeting with president putin at the recent g twenty summit saying putin no longer wanted president taft in power in syria russia's foreign ministry later denied that was putin's position but was it a case of lost in translation wishful thinking on the prime minister's parts or another attempt to exert pressure on russia in the last fifteen months is being a media attack on syria that the crisis to syrian crisis is seventy percent of media so two percent on the ground so there is a quite a lot of stories every day. like for some model of stations by just some of those using you tube. there is no confirmed reports anymore it's said the first casualty of war is the truth and all the international rumor mongering and jockeying for position comes at the expense of the syrian people the situation doesn't change regardless of which country won the latest battle of words lower smith. mary if an ocean is joining us now with all the latest from damascus so conflicting reports over the incident of this plane being shot down or allegedly shot down have been streaming in over the last few hours what

. >> reporter: five presidents, taft, hoover, coolidge, harding and wilson were instrumental in the congressional country club. >> none of them were presidents sitting at the time that this club was established. >> reporter: also a founding member, silent movie legend charlie chaplin. vince lombardi is one of four honorary members at the club. >> every picture on this wall has some significance to original founding members of the club. >> reporter: the reverence only grows with each passing year. that 1964 u.s. open champion had hoped to be a part of the club forever, so ken venturi donated his u.s. open trophy, scorecard and -- >> the set of irons he used which really -- >> reporter: those are the clubs he won with? >> those are the clubs he won the u.s. open with in 1964. >> reporter: so who will be the next to make history in these halls? we'll fine out -- find out this weekend. that really is just the tip of the iceberg of the stories we could tell you here. we are having a great time and we are just getting started. when the tournament play starts thursday, we are not done. in fact, even sta

nomination and it went farther left than he had ever gone before to get to the left of wilson and then taft was left scurrying as hard as he could to try to sound progressive and not be left out. so you have two very strong progressives and a third would be progressive all running in that election and the result was, wilson, of course, was elected and adopted a very progressive policy and the combination of his domestic policy which he called freedom and world war i resulted in, i guess, two very tangible things and the newly installed income tax which was installed at 7% stood at 77% at the end of world war i just six years after it had started and there had also been a huge increase in government in regulation and intrusion into the private market. as the country came out of the post-war period and entered the 1920s, the economy experienced a very severe recession. the recession of 1919 and 1920 and it's interesting to look back at that given that we are in the midst of such a time now and unemployment was over 20%. as i mentioned income tax rates and the top rate was over 77%. gnp was fa

ran in 1896 against mckin lee. 1904 against taft. lost all of those. what else can you remember? you mentioned -- why was that such a big deal? >> here's what intrigued me about william jennings bryan. he's so misunderstood. he's heard of him as matthew harrison brady. and this great play that was brought back after 9/11 and it's originally written during the mccarthy period. it's supposed to be a morality tale against the red scare. it's brought back to be a morality tale not to prosecute muslims. and williams jennings bryan based it was on the monkey trial. and he's in the play and in the book and on television and all the movies. he's the baa foonish figure. but williams jennings bryan wasn't against darwin itch because he was a flat earther or an uncaring big got. he was against it because it was conflated with social darwinism. and he was very much worried that darwinism would be used in excuse to not help the poor and not help children and not help people with disabilities. and would be used in a way that would just have this determinism. that's what he was really arguing a

supreme court that was offered by harding by this time, taft, had become chief justice and he persuaded harding to consider davis as a nom. >> but davis decided that he needed to stay in new york, and he turned down the opportunity to go to the court and it was from this vantage point of major new york lawyer that he was nominated as the democratic nominee in 1924. i think, to me, one of the most interesting chapters in the bock, one of my favorites is chapter on the 1924 convention in new york which i don't have time to talk much about today, but i think it's a fascinating story of the perfect antithesis to the cleveland, gop convention and this was the longest, most heated, divisive nightmare that anybody could ever devise and it went from 103 ballots and the two major candidates, al smith and william gibbs fought back and forth endlessly to themselves, the party, the platform and everything to shreds and finally at the end of three weeks the party kind of staggered towards a compromise and nominated davis who was very much a conservative from the conservative wing of the party, but a

. >> reporter: in fact, five presidents were instrumental in founding congressional country club, taft, hoover, coolidge, harding and wilson. did they all do it as president or as they rose through the ranks? >> none of them were sitting presidents at the time that this club was established. >> reporter: also founding member, silent movie legend charlie chaplin, vince lombardi one of four honorary members. >> every picture on this wall has some significance related to members, original founding members of the club. >> reporter: and the reverence for congressional only grows with each passing year. that 1964 u.s. open champion had hoped to be a part of the club forever. so ken venturi donated his u.s. open trophy, his scorecards and -- >> and the set of irons he used which really -- >> reporter: those are the clubs he used? >> those are the clubs he won the u.s. open with in 1964. >> reporter: who will be the next to make history in these halls? we'll find out this weekend. mike hydek, 9 news now. >> some music, wasn't it? golf get underway at congressional wednesday with the at&t natio

black intellectual and activist wanted to support bryan and did support bryan against william howard taft, but bryan would not meet with him, did not want to acknowledge his support because he was afraid he would lose parts of the white south if he did. >> our next caller is from memphis, tennessee. chuck is on the phone. good evening, glad to hear from you. >> caller: good evening. this series has been fascinating and your guests are very interesting. this topic is great. i would be interested -- i had heard at one time that l. frank bond's novel "the wizard of oz" was an algorithm where he was depicted as the cowardly lion. i would be interested in your thoughts on that. >> have either of you heard that? >> that's one of the great myths of american history. i used to give lectures about this. it's a wonderful way to teach students about the election of 1986. different figures in the first oz book corresponding to figures in that campaign. if you look into l. frank balm's biography, it doesn't play out. he dressed windows in department stores, and for him, the artifice of the design of h

massacre in may that left one hundred eight civilians including many women and children dead at the taft or most western states at the time to lay the blame squarely on the government martin cited from the globalist online magazine says he's not surprised the panel failed to reach a definitive conclusion. i think the report is so uncertain because the evidence it had to sift through was on certain this was not a cut and dried case despite misleading reports in the western press that it was i think this is a classic case were both public pundits and even the spokesman of major governments needs to learn to watch their language until they know for sure what the facts of a situation are and this was not done in this case people shot from the hip objectivity requires coercion it requires a restraint from pointing figures rushing to assign blame that is not responsible diplomacy it leads to very dangerous say so it's between major powers it's a very responsible behavior when our team has got hold of video footage purporting to be of an alleged massacre in the syrian city of hama and you may f

. >> from the 1908 campaign with william howard taft. anything changed a century later? >> it does sound like it. yeah, obviously people love money. want government to do things they want the government to do. people with little money do too. there's a lot of influence you have if you have a lot of money obviously. and bryant was in favor of

you have to do is turn the clock back to nine hundred fifty five robert taft was talking about american isolationism at that time and clearly that's the isolationists point of view that you hear from ron paul it's quite unacceptable and seems to me wonder if you had a miracle here and what is what and i didn't mean i'm going to balance internationally what is the united states trying to balance out if it's equal we're going to bellow who is it. again librium against the radical forces that exist in islam against what was formerly the communist empire i think what the united states is attempting to do is to create stability in many sections of the globe ok george what do you think about all of it where it will be our go ahead george. yes i really disagree with that the united states is in the business of creating equilibrium the lack of equilibrium that we have is precisely created by the united states we see for instance today in libya where we once had a very very. ineffective form of government now after the u.s. intervention last year or the u.s. nato intervention last year we now ha

first of this sphere taft meant i to >>darya: a fire has knocked out bart service from the space sanisco. there are no bart trains running between oakland and san francisco scanned maybe even for the evening commute. it is a story we're giving you coverage on. tens of thousands of people are driving, jamming up the bay bridge. we will be back in a minute. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories, america's beverage companies are delivering. >>james: our breaking news story is out of the same. a fire at the west oakland the bart station. bart has canceled all translates service. there is no service between oakland and san francisco. tracks are close at west oakland and track street. the ferries and buses are all trying

taft >>mark: 83 year-old child is safe at home with her family after an attempted kidnapping. police say someone grabbed the child and started hitting towards the front door. figgie is a transient who was eventually detained and arrested. >>darya: richmond police are investigating a shooting that killed one man and injured two others around 5:00 p.m. yesterday. three men in their 20s have been shot and were taken to a hospital. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. the chilly start to the morning but it will be warmer day [ male announcer ] olympic tennis players bob and mike bryan do a lot of sending... and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. sending...and receiving. [ bob ] i got the tickets. [ male announcer ] and with citibank popmoney, it's even easier to keep sending...and receiving. let me get you back. no, it's on me. i insist. no way. yes way. well let me chip in. [ male announcer ] send money from one bank account to another, with citibank popmoney. easier banking. every step of the way. with citi

so it was a combination of the food and the fact that the prison itself in taft, california is built over a toxic waste dump. and they have a thing there called valley fever that other prisoners were getting and they don't know what it was. it's some sort of wasting disease. so i think i got it there, yeah. >> we should tell, you haven't smoked pot in how long. >> well, i laid off for about a year, you know. when i started getting weird health issues, which turned out to be prostate cancer. so i did everything. i'm a very holistic person. the juices and no red meat and the whole bit. now that i found out that the hemp oil will help the prostate, hey, i'm back. >> do you think people are short sighted because many people have an issue with it morally and do you think people are being shortsighted about what marijuana can do to you as it compares to alcohol and other drugs can also -- what it means economically, should we, meaning the country as a whole, be looking at regulating marijuana as a way to help, to boost this economy? >> actually, i'm against it. i think leave it the way it

taft, coolidge, willard, harding and wilson. >> none of them were president -- none of them were sitting presidents at the time that this club was established. >> mike has a tough job. more trivia for you here. hollywood legend charlie chapman was also a founding member of congressal. football coach vince lombardi is one of the honorary members. join us for more live coverage from congressional. the reports begin on 9news now at 5:00. >>> our time is 6:25. still ahead, what your teenagers are doing to cover their tracks online so you can't see what they're doing. >> they are pretty crafty. >> facebook has made an e-mail account for you and now it's telling people about it whether you want to or not. straight ahead we'll tell you how to change it back. >> monika has a quick check of traffic. >> early morning accidents set the tone for a tough rush hour southbound i-270. slow traffic begins at route 109 to 118 where the accident has been cleared. in my next report more on area roadways at 6:30. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back. >>> we are back at 6:29 on this tuesday morning.

from the food so i think there's a combination of the food and the fact that the prison itself in taftlifornia, is built over a toxic waste dump and they have a thing there called valley fever that other prisoners were getting, and they don't even know what it was, some sort of wasting disease, so i think that i got it there. yeah. >> you haven't smoked pot in how long? people think you're a pothead but you haven't smoked pot in -- >> well, i laid off for a about a year, you know, when i started getting kind of weird health issues which, you know, actually turned out to be prostate cancer, and so i -- i did everything. i'm a very holistic person and went on the juices and everything, you know. no red meat and the whole bit, and so -- but now that i found out that the hemp oil will help the prostate, hey, i'm back, man. the only thing they can really blame pot for is it made you crazy in like "reefer madness," and i agree with that part. you know, it's really -- you know what's weird now is that because i'm taking it as a medicine, you know, and i also play golf, so i took the medicine

taft all cahow and and if of threat to when >>gary: i have had that drummed indeed, it is not an easyeal, yet the heart 3 mi. away, i am unhappy already irian >>brian: the merchandise tent alone is on the third hole of the merchandise stores. >> they haven't figured out. asked a cure ... put him, >> de have enough to carry do every day at the high level. >>gary: at the ever left, would you have time for a nickel is a lincecum story question marks >> there has not been a horse racing's triple crown since 1978. >>gary: this for years coach wants players to pay a yearly. we will see you at 8:00 p.m.. a core >>> first, "time" magazine. now, military moms in uniform. here we go again, it's a new breastfeeding controversy. >> yeah, and we're with the women behind the provocative photos. i'm brooke anderson. >> and i'm kevin frazier. >>> "the insider" is on. >>> they're making a point here. >> two women in the air force posed for these photos. >>> new star debate over the wives posing with their newborns in uniform. >> i think it should be a private matter. i don't think you go around, askin

error correction and that was the supreme court's initial stage or so it seemed that william howard taftter his presidency was becoming chief justice of the united states and he sized this up. he thought the court would greatly benefit from the ability to write its own ticket, create its own docket, not have to take every case that came along. so under his leadership, his urging, congress passed in 1929 what is known as the judges bill because all the judges of the country got behind this effort and gave the court for for the first-time discretion over its docket. and so that is the place we are today. we have the supreme court that is capable of and sets its own agenda, and in doing that, it really sets the legal agenda for