we need to find teddy roosevelt again. we need to have a teddy roosevelt moment. he acted in a preemptive manner. he did not act in the face of a crisis. he thought it had become too powerful one dangerous. if you wait, i think of it this eventually. they'll fix it after another awful crisis. 11 fdr, i think, i hope will come in and fix it, but why wait? and also, what if you don't get it tr? what is -- this is obviously another countries, you don't know if you think the leaders coming in and you often get chaos or craziness. a lot of the popular anger i think on this issue, a lot of the people who are angry from left and right have a very important point. and the book is designed in part to speak to them and to help articulate that anger into sensible policy proposals. but it may not have been invented just that anger. legitimate anger, but unproductive anger and all kinds of crazy things can happen. in conclusion, i just would say that we need to fix this. it's a fixable problem. there many tough problems defend our country and the world and there are many probl

we need to find teddy roosevelt again and have our teddy roosevelt moment. he acted in a preemptive manner. he did not act in the face of a crisis to read he acted because he thought financing had become powerful and dangerous. if you wait i think you will fix the sequentially. but you will fix it after another all of crisis. he will have an fdr and the trial will come in and fix it but why wait? and what if you don't get fdr? this is the experience of other countries when you have a calamity, economic collapse you don't always get sensible leaders coming and you often get chaos or craziness. a lot of the popular anger on this issue a lot of people are angry front left and from right at the very important point. in the book is designed in part to speak to them and help articulate that anger and sensible policy proposals. but it may not happen. and then you just have anchor. legitimate anger but unproductive anchor, and all kind of crazy things can happen. in conclusion i just would say that we need to fix it. there are many problems facing the world that are

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we need to find teddy roosevelt again. we need of our teddy roosevelt among us. he acted in a preemptive manner, did not act in the face of a crisis that he acted because he thought finance had become too powerful and too dangerous. if you wait i think you will fix this, eventually. but you will fix it after another awful crisis. you will have an fdr, i think, i hope, will come and fix it. but why wait? and also, what if you don't get fdr? this is the expense of many other countries, when you have a polemic and economic collapse you don't always get sensible leaders coming in. you often get chaos or craziness. a lot of the popular anger i think on this issue, a lot of the people are angry from left and from right have a very important point. and the book is designed in part to speak to them and to help articulate of that anger into sensible policy proposals. but it may not happen. and then you just have bigger. legitimate anger, but unproductive anger. and all kinds of crazy things can happen. in conclusion, i just would say, that we need to fix this. it is a fix

if we are lucky we can have a teddy roosevelt moment but we haven't even started yet and now is the time to begin. thank you very much. [applause] >> yes, i would like -- hello? who else besides you is making this case that is a political figure who is marshalling arguments based on evidence essentially you're a professor speaking with practical experience and who is doing it in the political form other than maybe mr. volcker the reason i ask that question is there is no committee, there is no marshaling of facts in the political forum that is possible for the public to really digest at this point. we don't have a present although obama has done remarkably well in certain areas like roosevelt in 1933 who was calling the bankers incompetent, cruel etc so there was no question at that point where the enemy was and that is the way the address it. the case hasn't been made and you were starting to make it in the political forum where you marshal anchor to take action to which you are saying has to be done it hasn't been done. >> i agree. that is why -- the president could do this, no questio

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but serious side effects may occur. >>> let fe finish tonight with a word about the party of teddy rooseveltdent in 1901, president mckinley was shot in buffalo and we found ourselves with a real reformer as president. teddy roosevelt turned out to be the most popular republican of all time, up there with george, abe and tom jefferson. here's what teddy said about the big business of his day. "we demand that big business give the people a square deal and in return we must insist when anyone engaged in difference, endeavors to do right, he shall himself be given a deal." in an article in "washington post," roosevelt had his version of goldman sachs to deal with. a railroad monopoly owned by financier jp morgan. morgan tried to slip out of a mess he got himself into. "if we had done anything wrong" he said in a note to president roosevelt "send your man to my man and they fix it up." teddy roosevelt told j.p. to forget the your man and my man business. "we don't want to fix it up." he sent word back to morgan. "we want to stop the dirtdy deals period." there would be a loud cheering section. m

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why aren't republicans being more teddy roosevelt and less william howard taft? what happened to you guys? >> the republicans are the ones that are being bailed out. goldman sachs, who basically has endorsed this plan, who has been bailed out by this administration, will be swamping the street this week in washington with their ceos and other executives saying they support the legislation. why is that? because president obama this legislation that chris dodd has and their administration is continuing the bailouts, continuing to say to the big banks on wall street, the very same ones that basically have provided the campaign cash to them in the past -- banks, don't worry, the american taxpayers will be there for you in the future if you need it that's what this legislation perpetuates. republicans are saying no to that. republicans say we have to go back and do a system where we do not bailout the systems any more and we have a system where jobs -- >> who started the bailouts? >> in this legislation -- you used the word "bailout," like it's your common word for ev

why more like teddy roosevelt unless taft. >> the republicans are galg out. maybe it's no surprise goldman sachs endorsed the plan, bailed out by the administration will be swamping the street in washington with their ceo and execs saying they support the legislation. why is that? president obama, legislation chris dodd has and their administration, continuing bailouts, continuing to say to the big banks on wall street, the very same ones that provided campaign cash to them in the past, banks, don't worry, american taxpayers will be there in the future if you need it. that's what this perpetuates. republicans are saying no to that. we have to go back to a system where we don't bail out these systems anymore. >> wait a minute. who started the bailouts? no. no. you used the word bailout like it's your common word for every third word, bailout, bailout, fine, useful politically. who started bailouts? wasn't it president bush and the republican administration? now you say the trouble with the democrats they are perpetuating bushism? in other words, the worst thin

she is now work on a biography of teddy roosevelt. n meacham wrote a biography of andrew jackson and now on president george bush 41. douglas brinkley who has written by roosevelt, reagan and carter. mi pleased to have all of these eminent writers on this television program. so i begin with doris kearns goodwin and having her assess where this president is at this time and what comparison can we make with other presidents. >> well, i mean, there's no question that the passage of the health care has secured a police for him in history. you know, it's interesting. i think he always wanted something like that. i remember the first time i met him down in the senate office building when he was still far behind hillary clinton. and he said that he used to look every now and then at the pictures on the wall of the various presidents. and he didn't want to be fillmore or-- but even then he was thinking if i do this, i want to use power for a purpose. so here is something that generations as you were saying, since teddy roosevelt in 1912 have b

he said the terms of teddy roosevelt did not. this is the indian building and the eldorado at the beginning of the santa fe style and movie stars always wanted to be photographed here because it was on the road to hollywood. all hollywood knew about cowboys and indians can from a dealer going through the pri party restaurants, these were the indians the new for the indian and cowboy movies and had big events at these places. teddy roosevelt came to the canyon in this famous and fire a little speech. his environmental staged the coup speech said he wanted to make sure santa fe didn't build the fred harvey hotel out. that is what they were trying to stop them from doing that if you read the whole speech that is how his environmental package began by and trying to get the santa fe to move back. they built a place to cancel a visit today. that is the harvey girl. the company was the only company like it to bottle coca-cola in the company that had its own bottling plant in clinton kansas. these are the second generations of harvey gir

they get heartbreaking defeats and lovable teddy roosevelt.he team held a snowy tryout for their favorite mascots. comcast was right there for all the action. >> john. >> why are you going to be a racing president? >> first of all i'm a girl. >> i did this in colleague for a minor league team. >> i need three volunteers. who's up first? >> i'm waiting for this my whole life >> how old are you? >> i'm 27. >> that's a long time to wait to be a racing president >> it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. incredibly intense experience. living the dream. putting on the giant head of thomas jefferson. i think goes hand and hand with the racing president. i'm liking for stamina, strength, and ultimately having a good time and having fun with it. >> so once you got half way through the out field you were winding around and went to the knees. were you trying to stay up. talk me through that? >> the snow got so deep. it made me topple over. i has that moment of weakness as we all do. >> i saw you cutting some rug out there. was there any particular style

teddy roosevelt. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] all my cabinet colleagues, this is really a unity agenda. he's a great republican. [laughter] thank you. >> well, thank you very much, mr. secretary. it's not often that a roosevelt is at a loss for words, but i've been incredibly moved listening to the panels, the speakers this morning and what they have done is they've thrown down a challenge that's come from the white house and from the president himself. our generation must rise and meet this challenge because we cannot pass on to the next generation the great outdoors, our great public lands impoverished. we have to reinvigorate the lands, make the connections between youth and our public lands. but this is a challenge that we can meet, and i hope that we can exceed my great grandfather's legacy. and if we can do that, we will hold our heads high with pride. so i look forward to working with all of you and the idea that we're going to engage with each other, and we're going to create partnerships and work is a magnific

>> soft power is an effective tool to enhance the values it is good to have a strong fest as teddy roosevelt said it speaks softly and carry a big stick. the soft power, the ability to influence the others to adopt principles that are peaceful and promote human rights is critical and debris vastly under use the resources we have had. we are an extraordinarily wealthy nation they want access to market and technology, health care technology, education and skills of these things to provide that nations with think more air kind of the of us but when i was then that in america i heard about the miracle cure or the vehicle operation. said what is that? fidel castro provides cataract surgery he has surgeon such travel and bring site to people. said he does suffer a tiny fraction of the investment that we may again latin america bree he is appreciated because americans are good at branding because they can convince have a day's wage for a can of coke we're not selling democracy as well as a cut or what america has done to lift the world so rather than apologizing for who we are and what we have acco

happened in 1800s and happened when teddy roosevelt tried to run for a second-term.ou look at the history t almost always suggests the bunout, is there a reason to believe there's a different din mick under way. >> you're right about roosevelt's bull moose party. repeatedly throughout american history a third party will not work. ross perot and what have you. if the tea party becomes a third party, literally on the ballot, it almost sure my will fail. what the republicans are hogue they could do is say, look, we are obviously, we're the conservative party of the two parties but we're an acceptible, we're conservative enough and that's where they're having problems. these tea party activists are saying to the most prominent republicans, no you're not conservative enough and i'm as unhappy with you as i am. >> which is why palin had to go to minnesota and campaign for mccain. >> we'll talk about that. if you were a republican senator or governor or whatever thinking about running for president, you would have a temptation to go out and capture that set of tea party mil

and i would also tell you that when teddy roosevelt to done jpmorgan there was a lot of concern in thestock market that this would be destabilizing. you know, they have a lot of power if they want to do damage to this economy they probably can. they are threatening us. make no mistake about it and you should reflect how you feel about that. you are being threatened. your representatives are being threatened by a few very powerful bankers. now andrew jackson is on the 20 billy dollar bill. he hated peter money, he would be mortified if he if he was on the 20-dollar bill but he's on the 20-dollar bill because he won a very important fight. he determined that we should not be captured to a financial oligarchy. i think there was a good call. we probably could imagine a different path with a central bank for the united states during the 19th century. maybe that would have been good. we didn't have that. but we also didn't have an economy dominated by a few very powerful finance years distorted in the way that other places state and other places struggled with in the century including europe

incidentally i have, since that time, and i'm glad it was since this time read a good bit about teddy roosevelt and his administration and the way he manhandled the situation. i'm glad i voted for it and it was the right thing to do and sometimes it is this right thing to do and it was the right thing to do. >> in preparation of this panel, i asked the archivist to see if in the 27 million pieces of paper we have in the correspondence we have between the two of you, they could find some words or some points. so, the first one they came up with was, to senator baker, please accept my personal thanks for support of the arm sale vote, i feel strongly sees these sales are in the national interest, your friendship -- leadership was very important and that didn't meet the bill. and then the -- >> that was the... >> the f-16s. >> yes. >> and the -- arms embargo on turkey. your help was crucial, signed, j, and -- >> a quick story about that. >> sure. >> henry kissinger came to see me, he was lobbying hard for the vote for the -- for me to vote for the aid to -- planes to israel deal and i listened pati

incidentally, i have since that time read a good bit about teddy roosevelt and his administration of the way he manhandled that situation. i don't think i would have voted for it normally, but i'm glad i did. it was the right thing to do. and sometimes the right thing to do is the right thing to do. >> thank you for that. in preparation for this panel, i asked the archivist at the jimmy carter library to see it within the 27 my piece of paper that we have in the course bus between would have between the two of you, they could find some sharp words or some points. so the first one they came up with was to senator biggert, please accept our personal thank the support of the arms sale vote. i feel strongly these cells are of national interest take your friendship with are important, or your leadership is very important. >> that was the set of airplanes. a wax and. >> and in the arms embargo on turkey, your help was crucial, signed jay. >> can i play? what about that? henry kissinger came to see me. he was lobbying hard for me to vote for the age of israel, planes israel. and i listened

it is always good to have a strong fist if you will as teddy roosevelt said, speak softly and carry a big stick. that is all part of power that's soft power meaning the ability to influence the thinking of others and to encourage them to adopt the tuples that are peaceful and that promote human rights is also critical for our country and i think we vastly underused the resources we have. we are an extraordinarily wealthy nation. we trade with people around the world. they want access to our market. they want our technology, our health care technology, our education skills. all the things we can provide in such a way that nations would be more likely to work with us but i kept on hearing when i was in latin america about a miracle cure or the mere cooperation. i said, what is that? they said fidel castro. he provides cataract surgery for people throughout latin america. via surgeons to travel throughout america and bring sight to people. i thought, he does that for a tiny fraction of the investment we make in latin america and he is appreciated and known because he is ranted it so effe

very cyclical so in the 1890's you have grover cleveland major depression and a cat -- under the teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilson depression of 1920 and 21. these things came about every 10 years was the question how you dealt with them. there is a lot of questions seriously depressed over the death of his son which was quite rational but took the steam and glory of the president before him and more so in 1926 his father died he may have been closer to his father than anyone else. he has ceased to personal tragedies clouding his presidency and not feeling well. 1932 wanted to speak for herbert hoover aside from his personal feelings he does not want to do it. and as a matter of fact he is dead before roosevelt takes office he has that a heart problem and i think he had accomplished and he went all the way. what more was there to do? so he was not a great man it was not essential for him to hold public office you have been eight awp jihadis? yes. holding elected office. it does not mean that much where was the absolute compulsion you have another question? it was a very disconcerting age to rew

guest: since the start of the national park system, we have grown, from the teddy roosevelt days, tounits in the system. there is sort of an appetite for parks in the country because we believe the national park system is an extraordinary institution. ken burns called it one of the best american concepts. he described it as a declaration of independence laid on the land. anyone, regardless of their and it -- ethnicity or background can stand on the edge of the grand canyon. so there is an appetite to bring land into the national park system. we are pretty well recognized as a good steward of those lands. and there is an economic benefit to it as well. for every dollar invested in the park system, there is about a $4 return into the economy. much of that is realized in the local economies as well. but the park service is prohibited from proposing any new units. we can only do that at the request of congress. at times, there are requests to study new areas. then we submit those studies to congress for action. host: pennsylvania. robert on the independent line. good morning. caller: in

guest: since the start of the national park system, we have grown, from the teddy roosevelt days, to 392 units in the system. there is sort of an appetite for parks in the country because we believe the national park system is an extraordinary institution. ken burns called it one of the best american concepts. he described it as a declaration of independence laid on the land. anyone, regardless of their and it -- ethnicity or background can stand on the edge of the grand canyon. so there is an appetite to bring land into the national park system. we are pretty well recognized as a good steward of those lands. and there is an economic benefit to it as well. for every dollar invested in the park system, there is about a $4 return into the economy. much of that is realized in the local economies as well. but the park service is prohibited from proposing any new units. we can only do that at the request of congress. at times, there are requests to study new areas. then we submit those studies to congress for action. host: pennsylvania. robert on the independent line. good morning. caller

cyclical so in the 1890's you have got a grover cleveland major depression and panic in 1907 and teddy roosevelt and the big board for wilson depression of 1920, 1921 so they can about every ten years and the question was how you dealt with of them and i think that not only -- there's been a lot of questions how bombed out and he was seriously depressed over the death of his son which was of course quite rational but this to the steam and moore salles -- his father died and he may have been closer to his father than anyone else, so he has these two personal tragedies clouding his presidency and he's not feeling well. in 1929, 1932 they wanted to speak for herbert hoover and he is really taking off and it's a site from his personal feelings he doesn't want to dewitt he says his throat hurts and as a matter of fact, he is dead before franklin roosevelt takes office. he had that heart problem and i think she probably simply thought he had accomplished -- he had gone all the way. what more was there to do. and as he said, american president's return to the people. it is good for me to return to them

the strategy takes the words of teddy roosevelt and it stays true to our values as americans. this allows us to responsibly developed oil in the offshore. we are fortunate that in these times and in this 21st century as we face the issues across the world and at home, we have president obama in place as our leader. he understands that to do what is right for the country, we must rise belote -- above the political fight of the moment. this is not the democratic or republican issue, this is an american issue. please help me welcome the president of the united states, barack obama. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. i have a few introductions. i think by the end of this 10 year, we will know that can salazar is one of the best secretaries of the interior that we have ever had. [applause] other members of our green team are here. our secretary of energy and, the administrator of the gsa, the ceq chair, the white house energy and climate change director. please it gives them a round of applause. they put in a lot of work. . [applause] the governor of maryland is with us. [applause]

he wasn't teddy roosevelt. he wasn't franklin roosevelt.people on the blogosphere were bringing up the famous old fdr speech where he talked about the banks and the evil corporate interest, he said they hate me and i welcome their hatred. that's not barack obama. >> he gets their hatred, whether he welcome it is or not. he might as well welcome it. >> exactly. it's very unlikely that they're going to join him on this one. to me, it's not about style. ultimately it's what's in the bill how tough is the bill. from all indications it sounds like there's going to be a lot of loopholes even in this tough and encouraging derivatives legislation. that's what worries me. he can talk as cool as he wants. but i want to see some toughness in the bill and i don't know that we're going to get it. >> there's not enough teeth in the bill, pat, do you agree? >> i think it's more graduate seminar than anything else. i don't think you can do the fdr denouncing the money-changers. how about money-changers and the temple of our civilization, when lloyd blankfe

fear not about being in the arena a la teddy roosevelt.e helping you try to make money in the market. even on a xwla blah blah day like today, with the dow gaining just 8 and the s&p, i don't know, .12%. hey, don't give away the story there, jim. we could care less about what some 30-year-something kid did or didn't do at an investment bank like goldman. i think you want to buy the stocks of banks that can make you money. regional banks like huntington banc shares, hban, up

are reasons why we haven't had health care reform of this magnitude for a hundred years since teddy roosevelt first introduced the subject. so for this president to achieve that -- whatever you think of the bill itself -- in this culture is a historic accomplishment. even more so, i think we all got caught up in the euphoria surrounding obama's election, the symbolic meaning of that. the inauguration day, no one who is here will ever forget that. and i think we forgot that there is still -- the notion that we had overnight become a center left country, rather than a center right country, i think has been tested and i think in some ways disproved, which makes obama's achievement even greater. >> i agree with what richard said. i would simply say that barack obama's an incredible american figure. i mean, my son, johnny, looks at the placemat of the american presidents and all those white faces, i have him memorizing them, and then you get to barack obama. it jumps out at you. the inauguration is going to be a moment talked about forever. i recommend to everybody reads david remnick's, "the brid

time there was a call for a national health insurance system and president obama often points to teddy roosevelt as the first president to propose national health insurance but this did not occur, this proposal, when he was resident, when his reform ambitions were much more moderate record happened in 1912 when he was out of power and scrambling to catch up if you will with the surging popular movement in america. now the progressive party in addition to the social welfare measures also advocated important political reform, noxious measures to strengthen representative democracies such as the right of women to vote in the direct senators as important as those measures were but also reform dedicated to atr called pure democracy. that is democracy purged of the imperium influences of special-interest. in addition to the universal use of a drug primary which would have been, which does an attack on the party conventions and denied tr's republican nomination these measures included the initiative, referenda on laws that state courts declared unconstitutional , popular referenda on courts. that propo

we also see this with the israelis and egyptians in 1949, and with teddy roosevelt in the treaty of portsmouth. it can be useful to have world leaders gather in a major world capital, but in different types of negotiations, you want to isolate the negotiators, so that they can sit down with each other and in an atmosphere of calm. host: were you surprised that president reagan and gorbachev had such a hands on experience, that they were negotiating with each other? >> it was one of the more negotiating things about those negotiations and was not designed to be as dramatic as it was. it was originally a quick pre- conference before a summit in washington, but because of the informality, low expectations, they were able to talk with each other and that led to these breakthroughs. it was a surprise success. host: st. cloud, minnesota. david. caller: the question i have, but i am appalled with is the number of nuclear weapons we have and the number of weapons [unintelligible] i would like to know what those numbers are and why it is necessary to have so many. guest: obviously, the american nuclear

asks people to rank presidents in terms of leadership, abraham lincoln, george washington, fdr, teddy roosevelt, no surprise but he moved up to number five, harry truman and we show where the two president bushes are, one for the first president, and 36 for the second, george w. bush. do you think the potential is there for him to move up that list over time, mark? >> no question. that's what harry truman did, and a sign of great leaders are elected officials who are willing to make unpopular decisions that are right for the country, even though they're difficult. now, listen to some of the things that people said and historians say about harry truman, for example, he presented himself as a common sense country boy, as an intellectual light weight by the elite, called it simple marks been man, which he was not, no pretense, moved by his faith and had the heat of the media during his presidency. you look at those parallels and the good thing is that historians look at the lens of the entire framework of our history and the troubles that these presidents saw and give them credit for the tough dec

and he knows just about everything there is to know about teddy roosevelt's which you will hopefully share today and also in the number of books one of which my favorite focusing on the disaster in new orleans following katrina which was a very extensive look at the orleans and the important history that is to be preserved in that great city so thank you very much for being here. the way this is going to work, folks, start off by asking the first four that i've introduced general question and ask a respond as best they can and then like done to give us an historical overview of how difficult or how easy it may be two have a grass-roots effort on conservation and the environment and then there will be individual questions and hopefully will take a good our to generate some thoughts and ideas for all of you. so let me began. perhaps the place where we need to begin. there are some who would suggest that we are, using a connection between non the people of this great country and the great outdoors. and am interested in knowing from your individual prospectus whether you see this as an a

because teddy roosevelt said we must not mar the work of the ages.e're also doing it because it is the right thing for our economy. this is how we would spur the job industry and the tourism industry and the recreation industry. it is how we will create jobs in maintaining our forests and rivers and read our doors. in a time of great difficulty when we are recovering from the worst recession in generations and waiting two wars abroad, some may ask whether now is the time to reaffirm our commitment to our national heritage. -- natural heritage. it was in the middle of the civil war that abraham lincoln said the sidelines in yosemite. it was in the midst of a great depression that fdr form of the civilian conservation core to build the campgrounds and a a of trails that we enjoy today. we're called to take the long view even in tough times to preserve our natural heritage because in doing so, we fulfill one of the responsibilities that fall to all of us as americans and as inhabitants of the same small planet. that is, the responsibility we are rising

ted teddy roosevelt nominated holmes, and on general philosophy there is more of a correlation. came to this court, i was a judge in new england. i grew up in san francisco, i spent a lot of time teaching. and i thought my god, i have seen a lot of people i have disgredi disagreed with and i think that's a good thing, there are 300 million people and there are 900 points of view. every race in this country and religion, and they have learned how to live together under law. and our greatest perk, benefit is that we get to see that. it's a very good thing that i serve with people that don't always agree with me. sometimes they might, but who don't always agree with me and have different points of view. i think you ought to serve at least long enough to pick up some that. >> i appreciate that. and let me ask something that may be a touchy subject. i am not trying to put you on the spot but this is a big decision with vacancies at all levels. are we having a tough time retaining judges because not cost of living dx%t5%ses. >> yes. not only are you having trouble retaining some of th

we also see this with the israelis and egyptians in 1949, and with teddy roosevelt in the treaty of portsmouth. it can be useful to have world leaders gather in a major world capital, but in different types of negotiations, you want to isolate the negotiators, so that they can sit down with each other and in an atmosphere of calm. host: were you surprised that president reagan and gorbachev had such a hands on experience, that they were negotiating with each other? >> it was one of the more negotiating things about those negotiations and was not designed to be as dramatic as it was. it was originally a quick pre- conference before a summit in washington, but because of the informality, low expectations, they were able to talk with each other and that led to these breakthroughs. it was a surprise success. host: st. cloud, minnesota. david. caller: the question i have, but i am appalled with is the number of nuclear weapons we have and the number of weapons [unintelligible] i would like to know what those numbers are and why it is necessary to have so many. guest: obviously, the american nuclear

in 1907, president teddy roosevelt reminded congress that though we are blessed with a rich natural bounty in america, we must develop our resources with an eye for future generations. he said that optimism is a good characteristic but if carried to excess, it becomes foolishness. we are prone to speak of the resources as inexhaustible. this is not so. that is what president padded bras about said over 100 years ago. the strategy -- that is what president roosevelt said over 100 years ago. we have to responsibly expand exploration and development on the offshore while protecting the places we are fortunate that in these times of this 21st century as we face these issues across the world, that we have president obama in place as our leader on all of these efforts. president obama understands that what to do is -- to do what is right for the country, we must rise above the political battles of the country for the moment. energy security is not a democratic or republican issue. it is an american issue. it is an issue whose time has come. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united state

since teddy roosevelt was president, the average president in the first midterm loses 28 house seats, loses four senate seats and loses governor races too. and that's the average. and we're not living in average times. so when you're living in the second toughest economy since the 1930's, those averages don't apply. there's more economic anxiety, people are hurting. that means there's more volatility in the electorate. and so that means the traditional midterm head wind which we start to set in virginia governor and massachusetts senate race. that normal head wind, we have to assume it's different this year. we have to assume that the race is more uphill this year. and so that's where we begin. when people are hurting they want to see change and they sometimes want to see it faster than you can produce it. so even those accomplishments that i laid out, they haven't yet penetrated to every american and they haven't yet changed everybody's circumstance to the degree they hoped would happened. so that's the challenge. i am convinced we are going to exceed expectations for the midterms, t

but, second of all, as teddy roosevelt told us 100-plus years ago, it's time to break these guys up because have incredible concentration of ownership over our entire economy. it is incomprehensible to me that the senator from new hampshire can be comfortable as a conservative -- doesn't like big government but apparently doesn't mind huge, huge financial institutions. so i think that anyone who is not worried about the concentration of ownership within our financial institutions is missing an enormously important point not to -- the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. sanders: not just from too big to fail but economic concentration of ownership. mr. president, with that, i would thank my friend from question. the fact of the matter is that we have a new law. changes to the system are already beginning. big changes are coming bigger changes will come in january. other changes will be implemented between 2014 and 2018. some of these provisions may never be implemented, at least not in the current legislative form. after all, 2018 is four federal elections and two presiden

while we do that and wait for him, over here we have president teddy roosevelt, president mckinley, they're is big rabbit and all of these great people you see behind me here, about 30,000 kids are coming here and right here, this is the man of the hour. this is apolo ohno. nice to see you and congratulations again personally for the feat you did during the olympics, the most winning medals in history. how did you do that? >> a lot of training. when i was at the games, i never set out to win any records or break any medal count. i go out there and compete 'cause i love to do it. i'm on the road ever since and pretty wild actually. first time here at the white house for the easter egg roll and first time here for easter. >> what's really cool is that you're so athletic and the first lady, who is the official sponsor of this event, first lady michelle obama, has the program, let's move, which is the initiative to stop childhood obesity. your effort in that capacity has been what? >> a lot of the same values that i align myself with, with my foundation, along with a company that i partner with

but, second of all, as teddy roosevelt told us 100-plus years ago, it's time to break these guys up because they have incredible concentration of ownership over our entire economy. it is incomprehensible to me that the senator from new hampshire can be comfortable as a conservative -- doesn't like big government but apparently doesn't mind huge, huge financial institutions. so i think that anyone who is not worried about the concentration of ownership within our financial institutions is missing an enormously important point not to -- the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. sanders: not just from too big to fail but economic concentration of ownership. mr. president, with that, i would thank my friend from >> a reporter from the politico joins us. what was the outcome of the bill? >> the outcome was 57-41. they did not have cloture, which means they will not be able to continue the debate on the financial regulatory reform bill. that was the expected outcome. they had reached an agreement between sheltie and chris dodd, the democratic chairman of the senate banking commit

ted teddy roosevelt nominated holmes, and on general philosophy there is more of a correlation. came to this court, i was a judge in new england. i grew up in san francisco, i spent a lot of time teaching. and i thought my god, i have seen a lot of people i have disgredi disagreed with and i think that's a good thing, there are 300 million people and there are 900 points of view. every race in this country and religion, and they have learned how to live together under law. and our greatest perk, benefit is that we get to see that. it's a very good thing that i serve with people that don't always agree with me. sometimes they might, but who don't always agree with me and have different points of view. i think you ought to serve at least long enough to pick up some that. >> i appreciate that. and let me ask something that may be a touchy subject. i am not trying to put you on the spot but this is a big decision with vacancies at all levels. are we having a tough time retaining judges because not cost of living dx%t5%ses. >> yes. not only are you having trouble retaining some of th

meanwhile, teddy roosevelt had left for africa to hunt for big game.prompted cheers from wall street. the alliance did not prevail and roosevelt sent back -- the lions did not prevail and roosevelt sent back many specimens for display at the natural history museum. the previous year, robert perry became the first person to reach the north pole, the wright brothers were improving their flying machine, and henry ford was building his model t. people were increasingly migrating from farms to cities. the nation's courts begin a phased disputes involving new commercial activities. -- began to face disputes involving new commercial activities. if he went to the location of the supreme court, you would not find this building. you would find a series of houses that had replaced the civil war era jail. one of those would become the headquarters for the national women's party. the 19th amendment would not be adopted for another decade. the supreme court would later be built where those houses stood in 1910, but it would not be complete for another quarter centur

now, over 100 years ago, we had some good republicans, william howard taft and teddy roosevelt. what they said when they saw the concentration of ownership and wealth that existed in their time, they as good republicans, they said let's start raking it up, and i think what they did over 100 years ago is a lesson that we should learn today. if a financial institution is too big to fail, that financial institution is too big to exist, and the time is now to start breaking them up. mr. president, this idea of starting to break up large financial institutions is not just an idea that bernie sanders had. it's not just an idea that an amendment authored by senators brown and kaufman is going to speak to. it's an idea that is spreading all over this country. i would point out to you that the presidents of three regional federal reserve banks also support the need to start breaking up large financial institutions. they are james moore who is the president of the fed in st. louis, thomas honig, the president of the fed in kansas city, and richard fisher, the president of the fed in dalla

but, second of all, as teddy roosevelt told us 100-plus years ago, it's time to break these guys up becausetor from new hampshire can be comfortable as a conservative -- doesn't like big government but apparently doesn't mind huge, huge financial institutions. so i think that anyone who is not worried about the concentration of ownership within our financi