340-pound taft -- >> wouldn' go well, exactly. might not have gone well. >> taft wins and roovelt goes off to africand a he assumes, well, great, the legacy of the work i've done as president has been preserved, this guy and i are in sync around we work together on everything and turns out not so much. >> the way teddy thought about it, he thought that taft had betrayed his legacy and had become too cozy with the old guard in the congress. they go after teddy, they want him to be a champion again. th wan h to run against his old friend and at first he resists but then i thinke can't not be -- he loves it. alic roosevelt, his daughter, said of him he so loved being in the center of action that he wanted to be the bride at the wedding and the corpse at the funeral and the baby at the baptism. so once that channel was opened and he really believed that he needed to carry -- had had gone further left by that point he and tt had been sort of at one when taft was secretary of war. taft believed government had to solve some of these prob

do you think they're turning on taft is why he turned on taft? >> what happened when teddy was president, what he understood, the one in taft didn't understand, which is the president the past had he defined the word, a bully pulpit to educate the country in the most power in a way the president has and he was brilliant at it. i mean, you would take train rides around the country. six weeks in the spring and fall and he talked about simple language. he said the harvard audis think i talk into folksy language, but i know i reached them. speak softly and carry a big stick. it summed up his entire administration. he then gave maxwell house a slogan, good until the very next stop. he was able with his relationship, but he was so interesting. he had a mid-a shave. when the barbarous shaving hand, he is answering their questions and they say the barber has to keep up with him as he's moving around. he understood the press was an important channel for him to reach the public and so he would read their articles ahead of time. investigative reporters woul

do you think they're turning on taft is why he turned on taft? >> i think what happened is when teddy was president what he interested which is the one thing cap didn't understand which is that the presidency had to teddy to find a workable way pulpit to educate the country. it's the most important power in a way the president has. he would take train rides around the country six weeks in the spring in the fall. he talked in simple language to people. he said at my harvard buddies think i talked into folksy language but i know i return. speak softly and carry a big stick. he even gave maxwell house the slope and into the very last drop. he was able with his relationship with the press to ignore him. he was so interesting and make it come into his office every day. he's answering their questions and they say the barber has to keep up with him moving around. he understood the press was important channel for him to reach the public. so he would read their article at a time. these investigative reporters would be able to criticize him. he would criti

my questions about taft. it was fascinating and i thought it was sad in a way that he was so strong that he prepare an attack from doing what he loved to do and what he would have been so very good at. have you made any personal judgments about her? >> is so interesting that you ask about nelly because i think she's one of the more intriguing first ladies i have read about or learned about. here is a young girl growing up in cincinnati who has dreams when she is young of having her own ambitions realized and get her brothers go to harvard and yale and her parents tell her she is supposed to come out in society. even then she just loves going to the local bars and talking to working-class people and wanting to do something herself. she becomes a teacher and think she will never get married because she wants to have the sense of life. she was just born too early in a way. but then she meets young will taft and falls in love with him and knows that she will be its partner because he tells her, i need you. she is

. >> taft. soon after he became chief justice, which was his ambition, he told a friend he no longer remembered -- this fascinating notion that he was the last of the presidents to conceive of the presidency as subservient to congress. and thinking of his role as judicial and constitutional. he thought it was his job to keep congress within its enumerated powers. tell us about why he was so unsuccessful as a presidential vision. >> right. he had a view, as you described, theongress, well, of president as being restricted in its power. but his view also was every branch is restricted in its powers. hishe would stay within bounds. congress should stay within its bounds. the judiciary within its particular bounds. unlike others, was very, very committed to trying to stay within those boundaries. he was somebody just simply held not do anything that thought was political for the sake of being political. he did not like going out and shaking hands. he did not like him and speeches. he did not like do

william howard taft gets the nomination.eddy roosevelt runs as an independent on a progressive bull moose ticket. he did finally run for president on his own progressive ticket in 1924. la follette looked at the two parties, davis and the democrats, coolidge and the republicans, and said both are conservative parties. neither are running on progressive reform issues, and he created a third party that ran with burton wheeler, a democrat, as his vice president and la follette for president. it was poorly funded. they had about $250,000 to spend nationally compared to about $4 million the republicans have an about $2 million the democrats had. relied on his own speechmaking ability. should consider it his patriotic duty to build at least a part of his life into the life of his country. gotmazingly, la follette about 17% of the vote nationally in that election. that was the second best run of a third-party. only teddy roosevelt's bull moose progressive party exceeded that. matched andn 1992 slightly exceeded la follette's effort

yet there was no increase in jumping from the taft bridge. >> now, all of this research supports the fact that building a suicide barrier at one historic location actually lowers suicide rates across the entire region too. humphreys says jumping suicides fall 86% on site and they drop about 28% in the area. a bit of good news on a troublesome topic. >>> from health to tech now. this summer ride sharing heavyweights uber and lift have lowered prices by as much as 25%, further heating up an ongoing turf war with taxi cabs. it got us thinking. it is really that much cheaper or cheaper at all to take a ride with a ride sharing company versus a traditional cab. we hopped in uber and let the numbers do the talking. join us on a spin through san francisco putting uber's claim to the test. first, a short drive through the city. starting point 10th and market streets, destination franklin and chestnut. we're trying to get down to the marina from here. how much do you think the ride is going to be end up being? >> around $20. >> this proved a conservative estimate. we arrived in the marina ten

there is no rain in this taft.ing is the morning is going to be chilly. mid 70s and low 70s. the jet stream is to the north. you can see the jet stream based on where the cloud was flowing. it's really far north. so we're in this high pressure zone down here. that means dry. it's not the pattern you want to see. it's not winter. it's still fall. this is typical for this type of year. we need a typical year. we need some rain. okay. the forecast for tomorrow will be warmer. right now 62 in concord. the valleys had fog this morning. we had fog by st. mary's college and in the napa area and new valley fog. it's that dense stuff that shows up late in the evening and into the early morning hours and it's not wide spread. that's what make it's dangerous. so you do those commutes so you know where the fog is. it's the mechanisms are there for that fog to around. be ready for it in the morning hours. really, for the rest of the we'll because it's cold in the mornings, pretty much calm winds and that fog will set up. warm a

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then finally in the 1890s they bought an old apartment house down constitution avenue about where the taft caroline stands today. for a while summers moved in there much to the envy of house members. that gave senators private offices, at least some senators. the building was built as an apartment house not an office building. the weight was too much for it. it began to sink. the elevator shaft was seven inches lower by the time they moved out of the building. it was pulling the floors apart. it was unsafe. it was a fire trap, very uncomfortable. people complained about it. it would have been expensive to rebuild as an office building. around 1903 the senate had a committee to study building a senate office building. same time the house of representatives needed a space and were investigating. in 1906, the house laid the corner stone for its first office building the cannon building. the next year the senate had a modest ceremony to lay the corner stone for this building. the russell building opened in 1909. at one time it passed all u.s. senators. now it's one of three senate office build

-- roosevelt and taft. plus a profile of simon & schuster, books on the pros and cons of football and a tour of the new york public library. for more information on this weekend's four-day television schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. >> up next, ronald kessler, author of "the first family detail," discusses what secret service agents have revealed about our presidents over the years and talks about the recent scandals involving the agency. he spoke at barnes & noble booksellers in washington d.c. this is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be here. let's see, there. i guess that'll work. as you can tell from the titles of my books, i like to write about secret subjects, paren my very challenging subjects that -- preferably, very challenging subjects that have consequences for society. it might be perverse because if a subject is too easy, i don't want to do it. this sometimes gets me into trouble. when i did a book called "moscow station," i revealed that a conscio

currie is going wild tonight adas says 25 points in the first taft. 8 assists, three spaces doing thingsnow he's paying like number one reserve terrific want 11 to 96. 111 to 96 >> gary: route 530 our time the 49 years as the hawks is gonna be a good one wilson is talking about capital it. capernick. i haven't known very much. i'm looking forward to playing against the 49 is and he's a great quarterback. >> gary: here we go with hot box stuff we talked about jim harbaugh was thanksgiving plans are bought. >>: with a plan on having turkey with a show of this piece where the short all the turkeys in things in my son jacking kate saw the turkeys in they're getting excited let get the turgut turkey's then the next shot was when there were loaded the turkey's onto a truck and then driving them away and my children sit where they going. and now we got a thought maybe we won't have turkey this year. will prod the tofu or something >> gary: 90 tomas is a cuban cigar the giants have looked dim and the start what arizona they lost pablo sandoval. >> pam: coming up next a last-minute scramble comin

from the adams, to the harrisons, to the roosevelts of new york, to the tafts of ohio, to the longs of louisiana, to the kennedys of massachusetts, to the bushes of connecticut, texas and florida. one generation of politicians seems to beget another. maybe, says moon landrieu, it's simply like any other business. >> well, i think it's not too different from that of any profession. i'm not trying to raise politics to a profession, but if you're a doctor or a dentist or a lawyer, your kids mostly incline that way. when i ran, my children were young so we didn't hesitate to take them on door knocking, and they got into that posture. >> reporter: but maybe, says n.y.u. professor of political campaign management jeanne zaino, it's more than that. >> on the one hand we celebrate the old horatio alger myth that if you work really hard you can make it in the united states regardless of who you are and regardless of where you came from. but by the same token, we have, you know, for a long time embraced these kind of political families. and the family name is something of a brand name, and it re

in 1911, president taft sent morgan schuster to help constitutionalists get control of the budget, get control of the country's finances, because they knew without that, they were nothing and they had no chance. that was also frustrated. the u.s. was seen as playing a very positive role in the azerbijan crisis and helping iran to restore its sovereignty and territorial integrity. 1953 and what happened with the coup unfortunately, changed all that. one can argue why that happened how that happened, were there reasons for it, but at that point, basically the u.s. changed its role in the iranian view from being a friend and supporter of iranian nationalism to being something of the new great britain. >> in negotiating with iran, you talk about misjudgments on both sides when it comes to the 1979 hostage crisis. what are some of those misjudgments? >> well, there were several. one, perhaps on our side, was the idea that the united states and iran could in fact, after this revolution, rebuild some kind of a relationship. on our side, based on anti-communism anticommunist and anti-soviet im

the consolation prize of being the vice candidate.l robert taft, the senator from ohio wanted the job. wanted him. he didn't get it. 1940.d wanted it in and linda wilke made the nominee them. wanted it again in 1948, again in 1952. 2, he came reasonably close, but dwight eisenhower was the presidential candidate for republicans then. 20 oosevelt had a young man yeefrps younger than he was and he looked energetic to run against him. he had to find a way to get too.etic the pictures did not make him look very good. pendleton, amp california. southern california, at the time of the democratic convention in chicago. want to be in chicago at the time. in the railway car that he used across the ng country, microphones had been up so he could give a speech accepting the nomination. he did. cameramen orters and were brought in to listen to the speech live and take his port and the picture taken of look so hazard that he nearly lost the election for him. but lucky he was alive at that point. because that morning, the acceptance ave his peech a little later on, he called to his son jimmy who wa

. -- president taft, he assumed the presidency. he was the youngest man to occupy the white house at the age of 42. he was rather rapid only 20 years from new york assemblyman to president. we have this image of him as a rough writer in the spanish-american war. we know him as a great white hunter of wild animals all over the world. we also know him for the teddy bear. there are a couple of stories about this. he was hunting bear in mississippi. the story goes in two directions. he either came upon a very old bear that he felt would be dis-honor to kill that old bear who had lived successfully for so long, and so he did not kill that there. -- did not kill that there. or it was a young bear that he came upon and decided not to kill it because it was too young. i think the older bear was the true story. the result of not killing that bear, the newspapers picked it up, and it became a story in popular press. some toys manufacturer then created the "teddy" there. --bear. when arizona are very sensitive especially of theater roosevelt'

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spotty shower taft back here towards the tri-valley. also for the east bay. the first leg of this storm system, you can see how things are going to shape up. 10:00 tonight, some showers near point reyes, the immediate coastline. we probably won't see consistent activity begin to develop until the overnight hours, 3:00 in the morning. that will begin to pick up as we head into 5:00 as well. not only the wet weather but also the winds will pick up. down in the south bay, 10 miles per hour. north bay, where that storm's going to hit first, that's where we think winds could be anywhere from 25 to 31 miles per hour. we'll track the duration of the storm system through your saturday. we'll let you know what it means in about ten minutes. >>> new at 6:00, hydrant heist. the drought appears to be behind a new crime in the east bay, water thefts from fire hydrants. potentially dangerous looting that could leave firefighters dry. contra costa coun contra costa county district is looking at upping the punishment for that. christie smith joins us live from clayton. how d

how much much confederates tried to downgrade lincoln's election from a ka taft officer tow a set back or argue that the victory was peeric, the fact remains that the election swept away a pillar of the creed, namely the conviction that if the confederates beat the odds, help would come from the outside in the form of a revolution in northern public opinion or foreign recognition. these two were closely related among the rumors of discourse for the campaign and 16 if the democrats won the election and conceded that the confederacy was unconquerable and had to be negotiate and treated with, foreign recognition of the confederacy would transpire in short order. without the prospect of help, had no way to confound the logic of the numbers and resources theory of their own demise. early in the war, overwhelming numbers and resources was to get southern enlistment and something the confederates are used to. as the war ground on, the numbers formulation took on the aspect of a grim prophesy. the union victory was illegitimate and inevitable. >> the reelection did not crush confederate morale

, hebased upon certain ideas would reach out, whether they were a reagan democrat, so-called, or a taftrepublican. >> thank you very much. thank you both for speaking today. both of you talked about the goldwater,yed with reagan, and the coalitions between youth. in madison square garden, goldwater spoke to thousands of youth. and the progression that occurred -- lee edwards was there and shared it. that playedt role in getting both of these people to the national stage. at more of a modern thing, how do modern conservative leaders embody some similar strengths that old water and reagan used to bring youth along with them? brother who older was there in connecticut in 1960. -- and i was like you all of those years ago. we truly felt that we could change the world. we truly did. we needed some help to do that. we need leaders like barry goldwater and ronald reagan. and we needed the right ideas. also, we had to be willing to take chances. should be calculated chances and catalytic risks. in september yaf of 1960, and the first thing we did was say we are going to have a rally. center in

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you take a look taft windchill as cold as minus 40 degrees.ny time you get this cold in the windchill department, it becomes very dangerous. schools begin closing at about 25 to 30 below zero. and you see with minus 30 windchills, 10 minutes exposure outside causes frostbite. you bring that down to minus 50, it only takes a couple of minutes, or around 5 minutes to cause permanent damage at times to your skin. very dangerous situation with these temperatures. here goes the air mass that is going to be plummeting well to the south. it expands over much of the united states. in fact, on tuesday morning, 8:00 in the morning tuesday, the temperatures across the u.s. about 50% of the united states below freezing in the morning hours of tuesday. that's expected to expand on to about 80% of the u.s. by the time we get towards friday. a shift in the temps pretty impressive as well. from 63 on monday down to 12 in oklahoma city. also taking a 40-degree nosedive in a matter of a few hours. that trend expected to continue for several weeks potentially wi

remembering presidents roosevelt and taft. plus a profile of book publisher simon & schuster. .. >> columnist for the hill. this week syndicated columnist cal thomas and the latest book what works commonsense solutions for a stronger america. he argues that solving the country's problems start with looking at what works in the past, discarding politics and listening to voters. this program is about an hour. >> host: we are joined by cal thomas on the new book what works, commonsense solutions by a stronger america and sean hannity. that tells you a lot about this book. >> guest: he's a very good friend of christine harper collins, which is publishing the book thought that he would be a very good person to have a right the foreword. nancy pelosi wasn't available. >> host: this is intended for a conservative audience. >> guest: isn't liberal or conservative, republican or democrat. we have challenges that affects everybody regardless of their political background or persuasion. >> host: but if you had a sean hannity, he's a quit

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our last of these president was william howard taft. you look at the man and again one day with women who will inherit this office, they are all truly physical specimens. i'm not even sure we can abide looking at presidents for somehow have physical flaws. so you add the intrusive media. fdr had the nation been aware of the extent of his disability, have they seen him carried through windows up and down stairs i'm not sure he would have been able to manage the image of the presidency. truly extraordinary. >> with the bosley medical clinics now it's not going to be an issue for future presidents. >> at two that are polarized politics and our mistrust of government. forget government big or small. what if there is so much mistrust about government as an agent of remedy and perform that presidents can no longer use it effectively and be appreciated for using it. those four factors i think have conspired to make the odds not arguing in my judgment sure it may be possible but the trend lines in my view are not running in the right direction.

. >> william howard taft. >> kennedy. roosevelt. >> george w. bush. obama. >> oh, my gosh. how would you do if we gave you that challenge? or how would you do if you were given that challenge by a team of researchers. interesting research that is part of a 40-year study that looks at the question how forgettable are u.s. presidents? if you ask people to name president, always a few they're going to give you. whoever is in office right now. but there have been 44 presidents in american history. the question is, how many of them do people actually remember? and how do those memories evolve over time? so this study what he did this week. we can show you the results from it. this will not make much sense. three or four different things going on. this is the overall results. we'll tell you how they did this study. we'll zoom in and look at interesting stuff. starting in 1974 and again in 1991 and again this year, the people doing this study took a group of college students, gave them a piece of paper and said, can you write down all of the presidents of the united states. and th

he also get some taft-hartley, which he doesn't want. the guy who really has to work with a divided congress is dwight eisenhower. he works with lyndon johnson. not exactly a shrinking violet, but they get things done. they cooperate. this is the period where foreign-policy stops at the water's edge. where things are bipartisan. it is like, we are going to fight a communist. we are going to contain them, rather. dragon. famously d tip o'neill get things done. the gingrich era begins, clinton vetoes welfare reform at all times, but then ultimately signs it. so there are periods of cooperation in divided congresses, and it has arms become a norm. almost become a norm. host: jeff in bloomington, illinois. an independent. the average us citizen, what are they most concerned about? isis, terrorism -- host: i do not follow the last one, either. i guess -- we can and by sort of talking about -- guest: statistically more people died from the flu the 9/11. but by god, we had to do something about 9/11. and i did get my flu shot this year. host: w