edith roosevelt, who is teddy roosevelt's second wife even drafted a letter for teddy roosevelt, renouncing the offer of the vice presidency in 1800 to serve with william mckinley. and of course william mckinley was soon assassinated and teddy roosevelt became at that point the youngest man ever to become president. .. the first time he married rachel jackson, it turned out that her first husband had an idea, so after her husband died in necessitated a remarriage by andrew and rachel. but anyway, andrew wrote to her in 1796 it is with the greatest pleasure i sit down to write you though i am absent my heart rests with you with what hopes on view the future period i should be restored to your arms there to spend my days in domestic sweetness with you the companion of my life never to be separated from you again during this transitory in fluctuating life. i mean to retire from the business of public life and spend my time with you alone in ste. retirement which is my only ambition and ultimate wish. between 1796 and 1830, he was a u.s. senator three times lead american army into the war and w

one is he -- similar to teddy roosevelt, he split the republican vote. and in that way, roosevelt denied taft a second term. perot split the conservative vote. and denied bush a second term. but he did another thing, i think, by getting in the race, and beating up on bush all along the way, kind of softened him up for clinton to come in and make the kill. so i think it was sort of a two tiered effect there. and i do -- i'm not sure how the campaign would have played out without him. but i certainly think that part. impact of his being in the race was that clinton was elected. >> next call is from rick in memphis, tennessee. hey, rick, you're on the air. >> glad to be here, folks. i'm going to assert that ross perot last time he ran was exactly what the united states needed. and now there is no question, much stronger, is exactly what the united states needs. and i would like to ask -- i'm not too well on what's going on, why is he not in the 2012 race? and also, why in the world are neither the republican or democratic candidates making a run in ross pero

we are all americans, teddy roosevelt told them that day. our common interests are as broad as the continent. in the final years of his life, roosevelt took that same message all across this country, from tiny os watt mee, to the heart of -- os watt mi, to the heart of -- from tiny os watt mee to the heart of new york city, to make cauntry where everybody would get a fair chance. well into our third century as a nation, we've grown, we've changed in many ways since roosevelt's time. the world is faster and the playing field is larger and the challenges are more complex. but what hasn't changed, what can never change, are the values that got us this far. we still have a stake in each other's success. we still believe that this should be a place where you can make it if you try. and we still believe in the words of the man who called for a new nationalism all those years ago, the fundamental rule of our national life, he said, the rule which underlies all others, is that on the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together. and i

blush, dylan -- >> this is wonderful, but, has anybody ever made a cartoon of you that looks like teddy roosevelt on a horse? >> never, ever. >> thank you! >> there have been three other cartoons. i can't describe them because they were obscene, but this one absolutely takes the biscuit. there he is. >> there it is. >> the professor himself on horseback. >> well -- can i say one thing from the perspective of the man represented on that horse? >> yes. >> i saw you had buddy roemer on your show earlier today. >> we did. >> whether or not he's going to be a viable presidential candidate or whether or not he the -- >> he got 31 votes in iowa. >> i thauns. but he is the only opportunity in the republican party, if he can get 5% of the votes until polling this weekend going into the new hampshire primary, that at least we can start to force the conversation about money and politics into the debates. and i do think that that is a worthwhile view to view buddy roemer, if not as a presidential candidate, but an opportunity to force the absurdity that these debates are tos we want to talk about that. >> dy

edith roosevelt, who is teddy roosevelt's second wife even drafted a letter for teddy roosevelt, renouncing 1800 to serve with william mckinley. and of course william mckinley was soon assassinated and teddy roosevelt became at that point the youngest man ever to become president. .. the first time he married rachel jackson, it turned out that her first husband had an idea, so after her husband died in necessitated a remarriage by andrew and rachel. but anyway, andrew wrote to her in 1796 it is with the greatest pleasure i sit down to write you though i am absent my heart rests with you with what hopes on view the future period i should be restored to your arms there to spend my days in domestic sweetness with you the companion of my life never to be separated from you again during this transitory in fluctuating life. i mean to retire from the business of public life and spend my time with you alone in ste. retirement which is my only ambition and ultimate wish. between 1796 and 1830, he was a u.s. senator three times lead american army into the war and was elected president, so you can see

they need to do something about the speeding cars on the teddy roosevelt bridge. 62 and reagan nationale the average temperatures today. hours temperatures falling but these are remarkable high temperatures for the end of january. 78 height in culpeper and fredericksburg. temperatures will continue their drop as the winds diminish. 53 in quantico. a 49 ads reagan at national. some colder air to the north and west. that is a relative term. these are all above average temperatures. we have a little bit of a chilly night. tomorrow, but will bounce back into the middle of 50's. there is going to be another little funnel system tomorrow night. 50's tomorrow during the day and a 30's tomorrow night. sunday high pressure will be in charge. sunday night we will watch the next little system move through. dodd will drop temperatures a little more and make it a colder -- that will drop temperatures a little more. high pressure will be on top of us, this area here, on monday. monday will be gorges, low 40's. another or mop will follow. -- monday will be gorges, low 40's. another warm-up will follow

let's remember, teddy roosevelt did this in 1912, had a huge impact on progressive reform after him. george wallace did it, 1968, a huge i would argue negative impact after him. ross perot did it in 1992. ross perot made bill clinton a deficit reducer. ross is a little -- you know. so -- down there at the end, the elevator wasn't going all the way to the top. so it's a -- yet, ross perot, let's remember, won 20% of the vote almost. shows you 40u we're really hungry, i think. i think if president obama -- i say because he's president, i'm going to shuck all of this, axelrod, go home. i'm going to run a radically responsible, radically bold, radically visionary campaign. one thing democrats have told you is that republicans are impossible. they're trying to stop everything. i'm not going get into that whether it's true or not in the congress. there's truth to it. we can debate all of that later. my frustration is that may all be true in congress, but it's never actually gone to the people. actually said, okay, if these guys are blocking me, i'm not going with my base, i'm going to to p

and this has happened several times throughout our history when you see teddy roosevelt did this and franklin roosevelt -- franklin roosevelt and others, where at moments of tremendous instability, which actually is inherent in capitalism because you do have a wealthy class created inevitably, which is not a bad thing. it's a very good thing. it often times if the disparity gets really great or if we go to the boom and bust periods, which happens with capitalism, assets and the wealth he out there whether it's a housing boom here or attack the mayor. and you'll have the booms and busts. and when the middle class, lower class, and the majority of people in this country become desperate, when there is no safety net and you see the government has to step in, often times this country has been very good at creating the stability that capitalism means to survive and flourish. if you allow the disparity to increase and you don't have jobs and you don't have opportunity, not equal outcomes, but opportunity for the wide swaths of american citizens, you create instability that can result in rio

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the democrats -- teddy roosevelt was a wealthy man, aftere was a wealthy man. kennedy was a wealthy man but they identified with the common person, the fireside chats and so forth. i keep remembering anatol francis talked about law and its majestic equality to serve the rich and the port. it seems all the republican candidate, romney especially with his $230 million personal fortune, has not a clue as to what is going on with the middle-class and working-class. this $50 that he gave this lady had one of his he vance, this kind of hear let me throw you a bone and let them eat cake type of thing is all obscene. -- is a scene. i have seen people who have to choose between medicine and food because i am in the health-care profession. no one has said that 34% of the people on food stamps are white. they are not black. these republicans, everyone of them, are coming out with this social commentary. rick santorum had -- say the black people have paychecks instead of food stamps. newt gingrich had his comments back inpaul with .. time about big- footed black felons --

teddy roosevelt had gone to the west. he was in the rough riders.io which took him out of the privileged life and allowed him to connect to ordinary people, and jfk was in world war ii. and the problem with romney is maybe he had experiences, but it doesn't show when he wants to make a $10,000 bet, or i have had a pink slip, or i like firing people. that shows that somehow his life experience has not connected him impathetically. >> now he has the one line attack that anybody can do. swiss bank account. it's one phrase that is going to come up over and over again. he used it. you have heard newt gingrich use it, and last week mitt romney doesn't have a newt gingrich problem, but a mitt romney problem. they fix the newt gingrich problem for now. by now the romney people seem to realize the lesson they learned from the first time they thought they destroyed gingrich was don't let up. they're not suddenly going to win florida by 15 points and say we're going to start acting like the ropl knee. they know this issue of the revenge of the tea party could

like teddy roosevelt and his square deal, the president frames this as a make or break moment for the american middle class. >> building an economy that works for everyone. not just a wealthy few. >> he is likely to outline new plans for housing, for manufacturing, and for educating american workers. >> what the president's belief is, we should have a country that invests in manufacturing, that invests in new energy. that invests in preparing our work force and has american values that are about fairness and equity. >> but a congress with dismally low approval ratings, a congress ha has been torn by partisan fights with the president. republicans are offering bitter reviews. >> it sounds like the same old policies will be seen. more spending, higher taxes, more regulation. the same policies that haven't helped our economy. if that's what the president is going to talk about, i think it's pathetic. >> republicans complain the goal is not to conquer the nation's problems, but to conquer the gop. >> we don't have to take my word for the facts. >> the decreasing nastiness in the republica

also, beaumont author jay lee thompson on teddy roosevelt's year-long post-presidential expedition to africa and europe. and on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, january 11th, 1901. the lucas gusher at spindletop hill changed the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. and with the oil came the roughnecks. and with the roughnecks, life. the dixie hotel and infamous brothel on crockett street, decades of gambling, prostitution and other crime thrived until a 1960 james commission crackdown. beaumont, texas. next weekend on c-span2 and 3. the first civil rights legislation since reconstruction was enacted while president dwight d. eisenhower was in the white house. and now some 50 years after ike left the oval office, thurgood marshall jr. was among those who gathered at the eisenhower presidential library to consider his civil rights legacy and the groundwork that preceded the civil rights movement of the 1960s. this discussion is about 90 minutes. >> well, will the real dwight eisenhower please stand up. today we review the impact of eisenhow

thaw you jump into the arena, as teddy roosevelt used to say, and even takes shot at you. you can take any big name out there and they remain a big name until they get in the arena. then they come down just like everybody else. >> pelley: yes, but one candidate who hasn't come down like everybody else is texas congressman ron paul. he was just four points off the lead in iowa and he's running well here. our political director john dickerson is with the paul campaign tonight. jo john? >> reporter: ron paul campaigning in nashua, new hampshire, today, predicted a real nice second-place finish. though surveys have shown that he is regularly come in in second place behind mitt romney. his pitch has been consistent: a libertarian message of individual liberty, adherence to the constitution, and free market. that economic philosophy is so consistent he was the only candidate to defend mitt romney's career as a venture capitalist. his antiwar stance and his unmatched candor have made him popular to a wide variety of voters-- college students, disaffected democrats and even evange

beaumont author jay lee thompson on teddy roosevelt's year-long post presidential expedition to africa and your. and on c-span3 sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, january 1, 1901, the lucas gusher at spindle top hill changed the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. and with the oil came the roughnecks and with the roughnecks, advice. tour the dixie hotel, an infamous brothel on crockett street, decades of gambling, prostitution and other crime thrived until a 1960 james commission crackdown. beaumont, texas, next weekend on c-span2 and 3. >>> herbert klein worked on everyone of richard nixon's campaigns from 1946 to 1968. and he was later appointed communications director of the executive branch from 1969 to 1973. next, in an excerpt of a longer oral history interview for the richard nixon presidential library, herbert klein reflects on how you met richard nixon. the impact of the alger his case and later the checker speech and his memories from nixon's 1959 trip to the soviet union. this interview airing now for the first time on television is about 55 minutes. >>> -- run

qstion about romney, the biggest problem for romney is nobody wealthy running for president, teddy roosevelt was incredly popular, fdr was wealthy, jfk was wealthy but all had experiences in their lives that somehow chastened them to understand other people's life was dealt and unfair hand, roosevelt has polio, jfk was in world war ii, and that allowed them to connect to people who were not of their class, and i think that has been the bigger difficulty for romney, time and again he made these strange statements shows he just doesn't understand where people are, making a $10,000 bet saying oh i made object $340,000 in speaking it wasn't much. that sho a lack of connection i think comes from his life of experience. >> rose: the way they handled the tax returns is part of a larger cultural problem within the romney campaign that will really hurt them, whether he becomes the nominee. when they are indignant about someing, indignant saying we are being judged by different standard, people haven't releasedheirax returns by this time in the recent past. gingrich is an outrageous person who couldn'

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teddy roosevelt called for a progressive income tax. he was a republican.em and invested in boosting our science and math and engineering education here in this country. it was with the help of republicans that fdr helped millions of people. returning veterans like my grandfather had a chance to go to college on the gi bill. that same purpose still exists today. it may not exist in washington, but out in america when you talk to people on main street and in town halls they will tell you they still believe in those values. our political parties may be divided, but most americans understand we rise and fall together as one nation. that is what is at stake right now. that is what this election is about. so chicago, yes it has been three tough years. there are times when the changes we wanted did not come as fast as we want. after all of the noise and washington, i know it is tempting to believe that maybe change is not possible. remember what we said during the last campaign. yes, we can. a real change and big changes not easy. i warn you it would take time. i

also jay lee thompson on teddy roosevelt's post presidential expeditionings to africa and europe and on american history tv sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, january 11th, 1901, the lucas gusher at spindletop hill changed the economy of texas and helped usher in the petroleum age. and with the oil came the rough necks and with the rough necks advice. tour the dixie hotel on crockett street,ec

-- questioner about the beginnings of the imperial presidency, i would refer them to look at teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilson before they immediately jump to fdr who used more power directly without congressional approval than did fdr. >> we have a very short amount of time left, so we'll take one final question from hyde park. your name and where you're from? >> i'm francis wyman, from boston college. my question, one of the panelists knows his adore luben, the white house adviser. i wonder if you can offer insights into luben on fdr, bill donovan and any of the other insiders? >> for donovan, he was -- actually, kind of a last-minute savior for him. in the early 1945, when donovan is trying to think of -- or he has a post-war cia in mind, and wants to form it, he put together a plan and shopped it with the white house and lobbied the white house to go for something like this. harry hopkins was very cool to the idea. j. edgar hoover who had picked up intelligence on this was going bananas over it and doing everything he could to sabotage donovan's idea. luben thought highly of donovan, th

then you jump into the arena, as teddy roosevel teddy roosevelt used to say, and everyone takes shot at you. you can take any big name out there and they remain a big name until they get in the arena. then they come down just like everybody else. >> pelley: yes, but one candidate who has not come down like everybody else is texas congressman ron paul. our political director john dickerson is with the paul campaign tonight. john? >> campaigning in nashua, new hampshire today ron paul said he would like a nice second place finish. well, he's battling for that now. as you can hear behind me, the music is playing loud. chants of president paul erupt. what they like is his consistent pitch. that libertarian message of individual freedom, support for the constitution, and free markets. markets. paul's economic philosophy is so consistent he supported mitt romney against his rivals who were attacking his career as a venture capitalist. if ron paul's message goes across the board. he is trouncing his opponents tonight with 18- to 29-year-olds and also doing very well with those voters who wa

million the highest level in two point one million years around the time of the presidency of teddy roosevelt we had three hundred fifty parts per million the upper limit this is the absolute upper limit of what you know scientists climate scientists tell us is safe for humanity we hit that in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. and look at look at what's been going on here we are in two thousand and eleven this is from c o two no doubt or and you know we're we're close in a four hundred parts per million or per billion or a per million so and this is just this is a so astounding really when you consider we're we're pumping thirty billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the air every year right now at this rate by the end of the century will be at eight hundred thirty five parts per million our planet will be functionally uninhabitable at least the way that we're working right now we have to go to near zero worldwide carbon emissions within a decade or we're going to see some serious disasters so get involved is a bunch of great groups out there three fifty two or c o two now dot org amanda

terms of speeches that politicians give was barack obama's speech in osawatomie, kansas, where teddy roosevelt, 101 years ago, gave his new nationalism speech which set him up for his run as a progressive third party candidate in 1912. and i think obama was really sending a signal there that he wants this election not just to be a referendum on the past and he has some interest in that because the economy is still, even if it improves, is going to be less than people want. but he wants it to be about the future and about the role of government in the economy, what should government do to make opportunity available to the middle class? what should the rules of the economy be? and i think that, i happen to like the speech, whether you like the speech or not, i think it set a really interesting framework for the election because the republicans in this election will clearly but running as much more pure free market candidates without government interference, lower taxes, less regulation. i think there could be a clarity to this campaign and to the argument that we haven't seen in a long time. >>

barons of the late eighteenth hundreds and not only democrat woodrow wilson before him republican teddy roosevelt looked around and saw wealth disparity as if this aeration the environment and built and was a part of the progressive movement which created not only political change but built the city club movement in cities all across this country so the political machines were operating cities for their own benefit i think that we have to look at institution building and political movement building as well as looking in the mirror and think about how we can change our own participation habits yeah well exactly well said and i want to talk about the bus project read a time is there a quick website you can shoot for people to check that out yeah web site jefferson smith that i'm also on facebook and twitter and think of jefferson decent there the bus project his bus project out oh argy you can also just google bus project organ bus project bus federation it's good stuff people can check it out great check it out say represent or you say representative jefferson smith thanks so much for coming on th

. >> guest: the people think of him in mount rushmore is the same way as teddy roosevelt not the accomplishment but for this during hurling clive that led to the presidency and people want to be like that guy. americans would to be like jack kennedy not the one that like the girls but he had debts and save his crew will lourdes to and also with the cuban missile crisis. when a president can rise to the occasion to be a better man as president more than he was in life, it is our dream. >> host: chris matthews, they do. in iraq, capn patriquin was killed by a roadside bomb that same year to read this is about an hour. >> thanks for coming. we are going to hear from >> they do very manage. thank you to the and why you lillian vernon writers house for having me. of i do talk about my book "a soldier's dream" in then asked the audience of for any questions. this book tilburg as a result of the reading aas newspaper article as a soldier who was being held as of march your by the iraqis. i thought that sounds interesting. he had died with the ied attack is day morrice capt. and travis patriquin in the

as we look past the teddy roosevelt bridge, a little bit of cloudiness. the winds will diminish tonight. these numbers are pretty impressive. 63 is the high so far at reagan national. 70 degree hide this morning in fredericksburg. the temperatures are dropping now. the wins will diminish to a night. these gusty winds we have seen up to 40 miles per hour, they will diminish. temperatures will drop across the area this morning -- this evening. details on the weekend and what lies beyond coming up in just a few minutes. >> tonight, there are new allegations in a child sex abuse investigation in manassas. stefon christian is charged in at least one case from the 1990's. it just came to light after a child sex abuse scandal involving jury sandusky. authorities say there are more victims. " they were old boys, at the alleged victims were all students in manassas where stefon christian worked from 1981 until 1999. the boys said they were involved in the summer recreation program, basketball after school. all activities that were supervised by stefon christian. a

and by tr you meant teddy roosevelt. what do you mean like that? >> jenna, nice to be with you. there's been a rising pattern of provocative behavior by iran in recent months but indeed for 30 years. this regime, this crusade to drive out all person influence from the middle east has reached the point where you've got four areas of real danger. first is their nuclear weapons program that's been accelerating in recent years. of course they've been providing support and training to terrorist groups that act as sur tkpwrat surrogates, against lebanon and israel and also hamas in the palestinian territories. worse, they provided the weapons and training that have been used in iraq to kill american soldiers, and they've been supporting terrorists, the taliban, as well as al-qaida in afghanistan next door. in short this is a very provocative regime. and then most recently there is the threat to close the strait of hormuz, which of course could cause the collapse of the global economy. this is out rages, our european allies are beginning to realize that this requires stern measures. ho

teddy roosevelt worth $125 million. the kennedy family wait for it worth about a billion dollars.fk lived entirely off his trust fund. john kerry worth about $300 million when ran for president in 2004. many who go into public service are rich folk. you can decide if mitt romney is insensitive. consider this. the capitalistic system in this country is based on freedom. freedom to earn as much as you can provided you do it honestly. do some americans have unfair advantages? of course, they do. and some folks don't like that, demanding more income equality from the frippet pric free ente system. the more the feds try to create so called social justice the more debt piles up leaving to outcries of tax the rich further. as we pointed out monday, the top 1% in this country now pay 37% of the total income tax yet the president believes that is not their fair share. he and the democratic party want even more. mitt romney has been far too passive in the face of personal attacks on his wealth. he should release his tax returns and vigorously defend the system that has enriched him. if he d