nelly taft was unconventional. she smoked, she went to beer halls, she wanted a life beyond her own idea of a society girl and getting married. she finds the perfect partner in taft. she spurs him on to politics. then one of the great muck rakers who prays when she's 14 i never want to get married because i want a career. we can do all these things. sometimes difficult, but we can do them all. what a great movement the women's movement has been. >> so roosevelt, taft and the golden age of journalism. we're talking about their lifetimes, middle of the 19th century and the turn of the century. why does this period matter? >> the period matters so many ways. partly because it was the response to the guilded age. what happened after the industrial revolution was a huge gap between the rich and the poor. monopolies that were squeezing out small businesses. people moving from the country to the city. lots of nervousness around. and the progressive era that starts with roosevelt deals with those problems. it gets meat pac

this is taft -- mrs. taft offered to lend and then donate her down.he is one of the patrons of the first ladies collection and established the tradition first ladies would donate their inaugural down to the collection. every first lady after helen have to had an inaugural down has donated it to the smithsonian institution. >> she love to travel. when taft got a chance to be chairman of the philippine commission, she jumped at the chance, encouraging him to take the job. they took the family into the wasippines, where taft later governor general of the philippines. she had a chance to travel the world. she also introduced her children to the travel. she learned differently which is. banquets were a big thing. ,efore she and the children william howard taft cabled about some of the banquets, and mrs. taft like to have some of the banquets and incorporate the military people, the philippine people, and these are programs from those. the philippine people loved william howard taft and his family. they traded him -- they treated him just like equals. this

taft. my dear mrs. taft, best fishes adelia paterno, manila, philippines and goes to illustrate the admiration the filipino people had for the taft family, especially mrs. taft, as she worked to make them feel integrated into greater society, make them feel equal to the other people, invited them to parties, put on musicals and those types of things, helped with their education. they really loved the tafts and to this day, we still get people coming from the philippines that have that connection with the taft family and things that they did while they were there. >> while they were courting, first lady ellen and president wilson wrote fervently to one another expressing undyeing love. >> here on the shelves are correspondence between woodrow and ellen, love letters really. it has to be largest collection of love letters exchanged between any future president and future first lady. in fact these letters were sealed in a trunk when the wilsons moved to prospect house in 1902 and trunk wasn't opened until

helen taft was a woman of firsts. helen taft was a woman of combinations.to me symbolizes all of that. this is helen taft's inaugural gown. she had the dress embroidered in the philippines to wear for the inaugural ball. the inauguration was very important to helen taft. she saw it as her husband coming into the white house and herself coming into the white house. it was a very ceremonious occasion for her. she marked this occasion, not only her entry into the white house, but really then added it as a mark for first ladies of the united states, when she became the first first lady to donate her down to dismiss sony -- to the smithsonian. she happened to be the first lady when the founders of the first ladies collection were putting the collection together. they met helen taft at a lunch commemorating dolly madison. they asked her if she would be interested in the exhibit they were putting together on first ladies. they were trying to acquire something from every first lady, every presidential administration. mrs. taft offered to lend and then donate her do

helen taft was a woman of firsts. helen taft was a woman of combinations. this to me symbolizes all of that. this is helen taft's inaugural gown. she had the dress embroidered in the philippines to wear for the inaugural ball. the inauguration was very important to helen taft. she saw it as her husband coming into the white house and herself coming into the white house. it was a very ceremonious occasion for her. she marked this occasion, not only her entry into the white house but really then added it as a mark for first ladies of the united states when she became the first first lady to donate her down to dismiss sony and. she happened to be the first lady when the founders of the first ladies collection were putting the collection together. they met helen taft at a lunch commemorating dolly madison. they asked her if she would be interested in the exhibit they were putting together on first ladies. they were trying to acquire something from every first lady, every presidential administration. mrs. taft offered to lend and then donate her down. she is one

you expanded it to include successor william howard taft, why?> i realize so many good books have been written about teddy roosevelt i didn't feel i could add a lot if i focus on him. i had the same problem when i decided to meet with abraham lincoln. when i dealt with radios vel, it was franklin an eleanor. i learned within i started doing the research, taft had a stronger friendship over many, many years him. they had written over 400 letters, when taft became roosevelt's successor, later, the two ran against each other in 1912, it was much more emotional than i thought it would be. i love to have that society of relationships. >> you write how extremely close they were and the fact that roosevelt basically was a campaign manager for taft in 1908, but four years later, roosevelt comes back, decides to run against taft in a sense sabotaging both of their chances and opening the door for democrat woodrow wilson. why did roosevelt do that? was it his ego? >> i think there are two things that made roosevelt do it. one was he truly did believe that

it did expand to become william howard taft. when i started to doing the research they had a much stronger friendship over many, many years than i had known and written over 400 letters to one another. so that when taft became roosevelt's successor and then later two of them ran against each other in 1912, it was much more emotional than i thought it would be and i love on have that set of relationships. >> you write how extremely close they were and the fact that roosevelt basically was the campaign manager for taft and in 1908 but four years later roosevelt comes back, decides to run against taft and in a sense sabotaging both of their chances and opening the door for democrat woodrow wilson. why did roosevelt do that? was it his ego? >> i think there were two things that made roosevelt do it. one was he truly did believe that taft was not carrying the progressive legacy out as far as he had hoped it would be. but i think it also was that he missed being president. he loved it. he said he would have cut off his hand at the wri

. >> you could have just wrote about roosevelt but you expanded it to write about taft. why?ed so many good books were written about roosevelt. i had the same problem with abraham lincoln. when i dealt with franklin roosevelt, it was franklin and eleanor on the homefront so it expanded to be taft. i learned when i started the research, they had a much stronger friendship over many years and had written over 400 letters to each other and when the two of them ran against each other in 1912 it was much more emotional than i thought it would be. >> you write how extremely close they were and the fact that roosevelt was the campaign manager for taft in 1908 but four years later roosevelt comes back and decides to run against taft and sabotaging both of their chances and opening the door for democrat woodrow wilson. why did roosevelt do that? was it his ego? >> i think there were two things. i think he believed taft was not carrying out the legacy and that he missed being president. he loved it. he would have cut off his hand at the wrist not to make the promise to have had a third

union busting campaigns to go all the way back to or through the republican congresses passage of taft hartley over harry truman's tud unsuccessful veto attempts in one hundred forty seven through ronald reagan declaring open war on unions in one nine hundred eighty one today. servitor groups like alec are throwing billions of dollars at anti-union movements across the u.s. and it helped to influence passenger right to work for less laws that are popping up across the country while all this is going on we're also seeing new organizing drives across the nation is here thousands of fast food workers went on strike across america asking for better wages and benefits and workers a wal-mart america's largest retailer joined in on the fight for a living wage as well so there's been a lot of ups and downs in the labor movement in two thousand and thirteen and here to help us break down last year's news of this year's news from the labor front as well as looking ahead to next year to two thousand and fourteen is james hoffa president of the international brotherhood of teamsters president awfu

>> there was robert taft, but the big ones were john calhoun, daniel webster, henry clay, the pre-civil war era. securities committee quickly decide on the top three, webster, clay, calhoun. they had a longer debate on the next two, and even back at that point kennedy preferred a german named george noris, but there were some hints that the nebraska senators might filibuster that choice of kennedy had to back off and go with -- there were some hints of filibusters and delays in the senate. >> what would you say was one of president kennedy's most substantive pieces of legislation in the senate? >> first of all, is very active on labor issues. he was the chairman of the subcommittee, a labor subcommittee and that was the one domestic issue he really dug into. it was a huge issue back at the time. he mastered the big it was the one domestic issue he mastered. and even his contemporaries said he understood the nuances of labor law better than anyone. interestingly he got caught in a very complex political battle, and the final bill didn't really resemble what he wanted. i was a labor law b

report from seattle, jessica taft, al jazeera. back to you, mark. >> jessica, thanks so much. live in seattle. we appreciate that. >> wraps up in sports of. one final note, winter olympics starts on february 6th. in the 8:00 o'clock hour, we will take a lookt at some of the athletes who will compete. >> that's something to look forward to. >> okay. thanks, mark. more news in just a moment. consider this: the news of the da >>> welcome back. blinding air pollution in beijing. a blanket of thick smog darken the skies. with the help of technology, there's a way. zienlt video screams beamed out the sunny images in tinnamin square square. it's a contrast to the record-busting crisis several highways were shut down this week and officials asked residents to wear protective masks. the mayor has pledged to cut coal use this year to help clean up the air. a group of ice sculpt tours, five blocks of ice, each 10 square feet in size. they worked through the night. art work will be on display in a park for about two weeks in the city of niko near the capitol. beautiful work there. >>> tha

from the violence to the unbearable, overwhelming humanitarian ka taft fee. could the united states have done more? the former united nations ambassador and contributor who joins us every suspected about this time. good morning. >> good morning. >> do you think they could be stable again? >> they can be. in egypt as they rightly indicated the level of violence against police and military targets from the muslim brotherhood is up. they are taking steps by moving ahead with the election to cement his control. he think he would win a majority in a free and fair election. most egyptians do want stability. it won't be free and fair if the challenge is real. when he gets elected, he's in a better position to ensure a majority in parliament. he goes on from there. i don't think it will give up. i think the military still has overwhelming support from the egyptian people. as long as that's the case, they will enforce stability. >> we are not saying it was a coop. not going away any time soon. >> the obama administration policy has been an embarrassment and it's not g

police building in the city of suez will bring you that entails on that as information comes in a taft or at least four people were killed in clashes between prose on this protest march and police across egypt on the third anniversary of the twenty eleven revolution police used tear gas to disperse crowds railing against the army backed government meanwhile on top we're square supporters of the regime are staging a mass rally the build up to the uprising anniversary was marred by a series of deadly explosions targeting foreigners across cairo with six people killed on friday. has admitted to being behind the attacks also on friday and now other fifteen people were killed and clashes between muslim brotherhood supporters and police argues bill truth is in the midst of the unrest three is known from the two thousand and eleven revolution egypt was supposed to be celebrating instead deadly bomb blasts rocked cairo targeting police offices as the country descends into chaos gyptian a dangerously split between those who backed the military and those who support ousted muslim brotherhood pre

spending in elections and contributions to to politicians you could go to nine hundred forty seven taft hardly act which been corporations and banned unions from spending money directly in elections you can go to a series of laws passed out of the watergate area and then more more recently mccain feingold laws that the supreme court basically just wiped away with this decision so historically it was a very profound decision that's dramatically change the game and brought us back to where we were in the sort of robber baron era in the late eighty's and let's go back to that robber barons on the flip side corporate personhood isn't really a new concept you were telling me earlier that this actually goes back to the eight hundred concept i mean this one of the elements of this ruling is is affirming corporate personhood that corporations are people therefore they have access to the bill of rights they have free speech rights as well this wasn't the first case that a four affirmed corporate personhood you can go all the way back to eighty six city clark county versus other perspective railr

. >>> a dog is dead taft charged at police officers during a routine property check in san francisco.when police entered the unit they found a man and dog, a pit bull was known to the police to be violent animal and had encountered him before. >> the unit -- the dog charged at officers attempting to bite the officer. he had nowhere else to go and discharged his firearm. >> the owner was arrested and charged with trespassing on the property. police are investigating why the man was on the property in the first place and if the dog was released intentionally on the officers. the family of the teens who post surgery complications left her brain dead has released images. it was posted by her uncle. the video has been removed shows her reacting to ice on the bottom of her feet. the teen was declared brain dead after having her tonsils removed. the family fought to keep her on life-support until the family could find a facility to care for her. the location of her new facility has not been disclosed. >>> and activists took over parts of san francisco today. it marked an effort supporting po

and william taft gave the longest state of the union in 1910, it was 27,651 words. as we head into statuary hall. knox thok. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> overlooking statuary hall as senators and pages make their way into the house chambers for president obama's fifth state of union speech. it's a tradition now for guests to sit with the first lady. this year the guests will include survivors of the boston marathon bombing, a fire chief from an oklahoma city affected by a tornado, and the first nba player to come out as openly gay. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> from here in statuary hall, we're heading to the house floor now. watching senators join members of congress in the house chamber. they'll be taking seats by party, as they do when each of the bodies meets separately. we see there vice president biden and house speaker john boehner. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] knox 230bgs. [inaudible

corporate spending in elections and contributions to to politicians you can go to nine hundred forty seven taft hardly act which banned corporations and banned unions from spending money directly in elections you can go to a series of laws passed out of the watergate area and then more more recently mccain feingold laws that the supreme court basically just wiped away with this decision so historically it was a very profound decision that's dramatically changed the game and brought us back to where we were in the sort of robber baron era in the late eighty's and let's go back to that robber baron erika's on the flipside corporate personhood isn't really a new concept you were telling me earlier that this actually goes back to the eight hundred concept i mean this one of the elements of this ruling is is affirming corporate personhood that corporations are people therefore they have access to the bill of rights they have free speech rights as well this wasn't the first case that a four affirmed corporate personhood you can go all the way back to eighty six city clark county versus other perspect

he met with president taft. he met with fdr repeatedly. he was a force to be reckoned with. sinclair lewis, if you are over 50 you know who he is from the novels main street and it can't happen here. which are still part of the political landscape of america. and mencken. all of you know who mencken is but you probably don't know that mencken was the most influential liberal of the 1920s. you don't know this because in the 30s he was enormously hostile to fdr and he was cast into perfidy. in the 1920s no one and i say no one was more influential among liberal thinkers and young advanced thinkers on the campus, today's equivalent of the creative class, god help us. no one was more influential than mencken. like communism, fascism, modern liberalism was it vanguard movement born of a new class of politically self-conscious and like shills. let me repeat that because it may sound odd. like communism fabianism and modern liberalism was a vanguard movement born of a new class of lee self conscious intellectuals. i'm not suggesting that liberals are fascists. communists are fabian

mind is the bully pulpit by doris kearns goodwin focusing on the relationship between william howard taft and president roosevelt or go to booktv.org to see her talk about it at the miami book fair. and finally political commentator glenn beck and his miracles and massacres, to an untold stories of the making of america. these are some of the current best-selling books according to publishers weekly. >> coming up next "after words" with the american society for muslim advancement with our guest ranya tabari idliby in her latest book burqas, baseball, and apple pie. the co-author of the face club talks about u.s. culture while she talks about fellow muslims who she says distorts islam. the program is about one hour. >> when you're on the air. most people when they look at you not think your palestinian because we have this image that we conduct in our mind. so can you tell me about your sword and where you come from? >> often been told they don't know that i'm muslim and so i am told that it is a double whammy that way and originally my father left in 1948 and he came to the states as a 16

jessica taft is here with the story of one american hopeful looking for gold.n. >> good morning. we're obviously just a month away from the winter olympics and snowboarding is one event certain to grab the public's attention. ross shimabuku takes a closer look at the athlete considered the face of women's snowboarding going for gold in sochi. >> with tricks and aerial displays, snowboarding has become one of the most popular winter sports around the globe. the united team is considered the greatest. gretchen belier is ranked third in the world. >> i have the best case scenarios and worst case scenarios, but then i have the younger girls, you know, pushing me and then hopefully i'm also an example to them. we're each other's biggest competitors, because there's four spots for the women and i would say there are seven plus girls who should be on the team representing the u.s. in the olympics. >> in the 2006 winter olympics, she hit the pinnacle of what was already a storied career winning the silver medal. in june, 2012, she overrotated kneeing herself in the fac

. >> meche is one of two people ever to concur taft point without a safety harness.foot walk on a one-inch thick nylon rope. a vertigo induced 6900 feet over yosemite valley. remember, this is without any safety gear. >> whoo! >> meche is considered one of the world's best high-line slack liners, both with or without a safety harness. >> the feeling is amazing because you control yourself. and if you lose focus, it's getting dangerous. >> slack lining has been around for decades. this video from 1938 in india shows a man balancing on a loose bouncy rope, hence the name slack line. these days the line meche walks is more taut, and he takes the sport to new heights. once the nylon rope is stretched and anchored, meche gets to work. he makes it look easy, but, make no mistake, it's not. even for members of meche's entourage, who all use a harness. ♪ >> meche keeps his fear of falling in check. >> fear is not good. if you don't know how to control fear, it's becoming way more dangerous. >> green lake, austria, meche traverses a distance world record, 525-foot 12-minute w

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uncle ted was -- had pushed into office one of his cronies, william howard taft who proved to be a disappointment to him. he was no reformer, more interested in the business community, theodore decided he wanted to run again. the party didn't want him to run again. it was against tradition in any case to run for a third term but roosevelt broke from the party, formed his progressive party, he was asked about his health and condition to run again and he said i am a strong as a bull moose and that became the name of the party, the bull moose party, and the republican party split the republican vote. wilson only won with 41% of the vote in the country in 1912 but he won and then he had to find a cabinet. he did what most presidents do, look for your political cronies and you reward them, give them positions in the cabinet. his publicist, major publicist, a newspaper publisher from raleigh, north carolina wanted to the postmaster general because postmaster general requires very little work and also gave you the opportunity to appoint postmasters all around the country and that would give a lot of pol

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and here they were having dinner every night with william taft, woodrow wilson, andrew carnegie, and all of these were their dinner partners than they were 10 years old. and so of course they did not participate in the dinner conversation. but they absorb so much during those long evenings. this was part of their training to join the american elite. in fact, i discovered that allen dulles who started attending these dinners when he was about eight years old had a wonderful habit and it's interesting when you realize that he became the head of the cia. he would go upstairs and unlike his brother would go to sleep, he would go to his desk and write reports about what he saw with each of the people at the dinner. and not only what they said, but what he thought they really meant. and he thought that they were already part of the psychology. he later wrote that the fishing trips that he took were very influential in pushing him towards a career that he had in espionage and covert action because you catch the pitch and you play him and remove them you move them and you try to slowly reel

wilderness for the republicans because people saw in just those two years where they they pushed through taft hartly you know to hurt unions and they they they shot down all these new deal programs that. i don't see this working for the republicans i don't think people are by and. well i think you know what's working for the republicans is the fact that the obama administration's level of economic ineptitude is just mind boggling when president obama said that extending unemployment benefits will create jobs and help grow the economy and almost fell off my seat there was no evidence whatsoever to support bad they're actually been found in a form of extending unemployment benefits is like the number one disincentive for people to want to go look for work how do you get on the couch from taken in two hundred dollars a week well you know what if the president keeps taxing this country to oblivion that's all there's going to be. yes yes he's overtops and he's overregulate our taxes are in sixty you know where our market is hogs the job market is horrible and it's under obama's watch that that's t

approximately $600 million a week that's being sapped from the economy as estimated by professor lawrence taft at harvard if we don't act. now is the time not only to put these appropriations to work but also to put our u.i. program to work. so that not only can we help americans, but we can also help our economy. i want to thank in this regard with respect to u.i. efforts, senator heller and senator collins; extraordinarily thoughtful members who are committed as i am to helping their constituents and doing it in a wise and prudent way. and with that, mr. chairman, let me just recognize the chairwoman who has come to the floor and say personally thank you, madam chairwoman for an extraordinary bit of work. not surprisingly coming from a giant like yourself. thank you. and with that, mr. chairman, i would yield the floor. ms. mikulski: the senator from rhode island, for his comments and appreciate them. they were well said. but the compliment should be reversed. this is a committee effort, and on a -- what i'm so excited about this bill is that it's bipartisan, bicameral. it was agreed upon in

huge i mean this is taft hartly on steroids for it has the potential to be that and it thoughts. well i think this i think it's really hard to talk about unions public sector unions or labor unions at large without it. asking the question of whether they are valid anymore you know they definitely serve a purpose but you know maybe it's time for labor unions to become extinct to give us the forty hour work week to give us the you know have a whole i'm not sure that i'm not i'm not diminishing what they've done in the past but i think that what's going to protect workers from going to argue that it's not really representing workers very well i mean. in our eyes and very many workers i mean that's what i'm saying i mean it is it isn't ok why wouldn't why is it so bad that labor unions go the way the horse like i think in this particular instance it's actually pretty clear that the labor unions have been had a positive effect on these home care workers wages jumped from like seven dollars to thirteen dollars an hour and actually public costs ironically you won't get this coming out o

for the conservative they chose robert taft to have passed away, a stalwart republican senator from ohio. when it came to the progress of there were decisions. kennedy very much wanted to select george norris, a very kind of aggressive, popular senator from nebraska. but the current senator from nebraska had had some run-in's and said, you're not going to select him. in fact he wrote a letter was looks an awful lot like a threat of a filibuster if kennedy actually went forward and suggest to him. and also styles bridges was on the committee. so they ended up doing -- choosing robert from wisconsin. so this was a project that -- and it was interesting for me to just read the paper work, try to piece together the deliberations of the committee and just see the kind of inquisitive, thoughtful aspect of kennedy. he was writing letters, some of his friends who are historians trying to get there sense of things. it was something that he just really, really loved. i think his work on a solidified his reputation as kind of this sentence, you know, and house historian. i think it was also very po

taft, roosevelt, this is great because we are enfranchised and we can vote for our own senator. problem is you are voting for a senator who is answerable to whom? the senator is no longer grant durable to the state. they treat the states like another group so they spend as much time dealing with lock as they might with somebody, a governor, they feel no obligation to state governments, state legislature whatsoever so that was quite revolutionary when that occurred. i think that is right. i don't think there is any justification for it but you have a lot of members of the house who think it is a step up to run for the senate and a lot of senators who look down on the house. shows how screwed up the system has become. >> host: robert, this is an e-mail, on your radio show you often talk about class warfare in america. 2011 study by the congressional budget office found the top 1% of households increased their income by about 280% after taxes over of period 1979-2007. at the same time the average income at the bottom 90% of americans basically stagnated growing just 8% over the sam

taft has a big blog. they do a lot of outward projected work. i know here does that, too.th the details. they do work to change the way people out in the country are thinking and talking and acting. for the most part, the focus for policy change and the impact you try to have it on the beltway elite. how do you focus on the executive branch? what are the transitions? those are very fruitful times for think tanks to have impact. everyone tries to do it. when your person gets elected, you write a big fat book and hand it over and hope for the best. it is really helpful when you're running the transition. you will see in 2000 and 16 -- 2016, heritage will not bother to write a book for president clinton but if it is president rubio there will be a big heritage books handed over to the transition team. the other thing is to install your people there. this was extraordinarily important for the dlc and moving their ideas. also their chairman was the president which helps to. exactlyelody barnes in the same job. the rent the domestic policy council in the obama white house. now j

you know, every president since taft has played except for jimmy cart carter. most are very avid.ry good. a few were. john f. kennedy was probably the best, ike was probably the most avid. wilson played, believe it or not, every day of his presidency, snow or not. >> how did he do that? >> well, he -- remember, that was in the early 1900s. he would go out, security wasn't i guess needed as much as it is now, and he would go out and -- there was a group in westchester county that was reported every weekend in "new york times" at a course side siwanoy. they would paint their golf balls and play that way, but wilson did it. >> martin, we were just showing presidents over the year. we show the eisenhower, the bushing and clinton. who do you think is the best of the presidential golfers? is it somebody who assistants out as the best one? >> they say that kennedy was, though he tried to hide his golf. he one placed at a course at cape cod, played 17 holes and said i better walk in before the press sees me, because this is really a very -- at the time it was thought of a very republican

taft-hartley gets elected in 1947 in the senate -- in the summer. on requirement is that the general counsel of the nlrb must enforce the ban on secondary ,hat cuts within a fixed time 30 or 60 days. it turns out there is no general counsel at that time. -- the congress and executive have come together to address those problems and a vast number of cases by providing there can be an acting general counsel of the nlrb to deal with that situation. >> with respect to multimember boards, the vacancy at does not cover them. that is one reason we have the problem here. beyond that, the framers made a judgment that this was not going to be left to congressional largess. that is why there is a recess appointment clause. >> let's talk about the 1940 eight emergency, the secretary of labor. there was a vacancy in that >> whatever was the case in 1789, congress can be back here in one day. saysle two, section three they may convene both houses. that is true. the president has the power to call him back. >> they made a different judgment. backhad the power to c

taft-hartley gets elected in 1947 in the senate -- in the summer.on requirement is that the general counsel of the nlrb must enforce the ban on secondary what cuts within a fixed time, 30 or 60 days. it turns out there is no general counsel at that time. >> if the -- the congress and executive have come together to address those problems and a vast number of cases by providing there can be an acting general counsel of the nlrb to deal with that situation. >> with respect to multimember boards, the vacancy at does not cover them. that is one reason we have the problem here. beyond that, the framers made a judgment that this was not going to be left to congressional largess. that is why there is a recess appointment clause. >> let's talk about the 1948 emergency, the secretary of labor. there was a vacancy in that post the president has the authority to convene congress congress could be back here in monday. the president has the authority to convene congress. if there is indeed this terrible emergency you're talking about, the president has the power