the teddy roosevelt point and we're going to have to go through the harding coolidge hoover or are we a be maybe the beginning of the hoover point if we're drawing parallels here if we're trying parallels i'm afraid i would say we're at the teddy roosevelt point i think that this is going to be a very very long political process and a long intellectual process you know i think that part of the difficulty that progressives that liberals have in grappling with what's happening in the world economy right now is i think they are able to ask the questions but they don't have persuasive answers yet it's really striking to me the extent to which the liberal agenda the progressive agenda is really a rehashing of the nine hundred fifty s. and i'm not saying i disagree with that and i'm certainly not saying i have something better to offer but when i look back on the historical experience what is very striking is the way the progressive came up with something entirely new yeah well well well and we'll dig deeper into that in just a moment more of tonight's conversations with great minds the chr

. >> was that in the company, the era of teddy roosevelt and his lament over the overcivilized men inthe famous speech he gave? >> right in the strenuous life. in that period, 19th century turning into the 20th century as roosevelt's roughriders were going up san juan hill and pursuing the spanish american war there's an effort to buff jesus up essentially, emphasize his scenes where he kicks the money changers out of the temple or where he's a carpenter and he's buff and got strong muscles and that sort of thing and that was an effort to bring men back in the churches, there were very few at that time and there was an effort to attract them. >> we won't try to summarize the various permutations of the image of jesus in your book, but one of the funer aspects of it is your portrayal or your backgrounding of the laughing jesus. correct? >> yes. >> what was that? >> well,, you know, i think this is where the friendly mr. rogers jesus sort of ends up is the jesus who laughs. >> who produced the laughing jesus? >> well, there was a couple efforts to do it. there was a fellow called hubert

might that be i mean this was what teddy roosevelt proposed this was his solution actually it was thomas paine's original solution wrote about an agrarian justice well i think as a practical matter it's a first while politically they're never going to do much with the estate tax because there are too many democrats who essentially support the republican position which really is you should have no taxes on anything on anybody for any reason now it's true there are a group of millionaires and there's a few of these groups but i think you know they may be rich. but they're not putting resources into this effort i mean you know mr gates sr will you know do various things but my friends the koch brothers and people of that sort sheldon adelson they're writing checks for tens of millions of dollars put for political action committees to my knowledge of the buffets of the world and the people that sort or not they don't have political action committees they're not putting their money where their mouth is and plutocracy i mean the the merger of corporate and state interests was defined by mussol

tasks that are managed by big-time presence with that club and stature of teddy roosevelt or fdr. his -- he famously said the upcoming civil war was clearly lankans moment to shine and that the thought of himself delivering the gettysburg address or freeing the slaves was as impossible to imagine as seeing float hands across scipio photos of me. [laughter] >> he knew. thank you so much. >> correct me if i'm wrong, but i think that pedagogical redness is something you'll find your of the entire book. >> is there any other president the people want to year about? judy puente does now exist. anybody else? bill o'reilly. >> we do have is your the blonde entry. american writer whose books give kids a license to beef fat and then straight with impunity. carte blanche. >> bill o'reilly does, in fact, not exist. sorry. [inaudible] >> let's read the entry. >> sure. >> it's a miami thing. >> that terrifies me, what that woman said. >> miami, large american city of two and a half million people located on florida's southern coast that has been clean and sober going on six weeks now. the cent

teddy roosevelt's an interesting example. he got war out of his system by charging up san juan hill as a young man. he was the ultimate war lover. nobody loved war more than teddy roosevelt. he was almost completely crazy about it, but he got it out of his system by doing it himself. and when he became president, you know, he talked about speak softly but carry a big stick, the great white fleet and he believed in power, but he was not desperate to rush into a war because he had already proved himself. >> which then leads us to what we see today and what is coming out of the wars that we're in today. obviously president obama's history, his story is not over yet. evan, you were talking about presidents driven by a high-minded ideology. what is president obama's as he tries to draw down yet goes in with these firm strikes? >> he just wants to get out. all this talk about nation building and helping afghanistan become a real country, they're not talking about that now. they just want out. they don't want to have al qaeda over t

theodore teddy roosevelt. you listening? and that's why i'm called "teddy."they come back. any chance of a lift? just to the school, it's not far. of course, climb on. i'll take you there. ♪ do you think any of these children will want us? a beauitful doll like you? of course they will. what about me? you think i'll find a house where they never have sprouts and the telly is on all the t i'm sure you will. why don't you stay, choncey? find some children to love and look after you. children? i'm far too old for them. goodbye, annie. choncey, yes? you're not bad for a dog. goodbye, teddy. ♪ ♪ [ school bell rings ] they're coming. the new kids are coming. good luck, teddy. good luck, annie. you call me by my real name. you called me annie. annie! ♪when you're left ♪out in the cold just let me know ♪ ♪and i'll be on my way ♪i'll be ♪there to chase your blues away ♪ ♪ ♪when it feels that life ♪too tough, you've had enough ♪empty promises ♪i'll be here to ♪hold your fears at bay ♪ ♪anytime you need ♪a friend just ♪call out my name and i'll come running ♪ ♪anywhere

you would make sure that it was safe. 100 years ago, teddy roosevelt was president, and your pipes were brand new. now, our infrastructure is old. 100, 200 years old. it's not been upgraded or fixed or replaced, sometimes, ever. man: if these systems are not maintained, sooner or later they're going to fail. they all have a life expectancy. if you don't maintain them and constantly check them and then do what's necessary to rehabilitate or repair, you're going to have a big problem. and they're going to collapse. they're going to fail. and all of a sudden, the water, or the sewage that normally goes through them, will not have any place to go. it'll back up into homes, it'll back up onto the street. it's normally out of sight, out of mind. once it comes to the surface, it's a whole 'nother animal. melosi: you're talking about system-wide problems that would take tremendous human resources to correct. this is true with drinking water, as well as wastewater. man: first, our top story. thousands of people are without water tonight. woman: a flash flood of the manmade kind. apparently, a 12

hundred eighty five million dollar mission sixty six parks improvement program and in the spirit of teddy roosevelt instead of privatizing government assets they expanded government land they bragged that they had quote added more than four hundred thousand acres to our national park system and ninety thousand acres to while they run wildlife refuges and were working to quote protect reserved areas of all types and to provide increased staffs and operating funds for public recreation agencies . eisenhower and as party one hundred fifty six understood that america is fundamentally a center left nation and so they supported many of those positions as president eisenhower wrote to his brother edgar in one hundred fifty four letter should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things among them are h.l. hunt you possibly know his background a few of the texas oil millionaires and an occasional

extensive building on the american continent, $25 million when it was declared finished in 97 by teddy roosevelt. and stanford white came here somewhere around 1872 and he said of all the terrible things i've got to spend another night in albany. he said of all the one horse towns, this is the absolute worst, and it was -- the devil. i have to spend another night in albany. but, you know, that changed when the capital, suddenly albany became a tourist attraction. "o albany!" which is kind of an impressionistic history, was an ambitious project, 26 articles, covered the whole ethnic history of the city, every geographic neighborhood, and a lot more. and it's sold extremely well, all over the country. it was an unusual development, and it's been selling ever since. it's a phenomenon that don't quite understand, but what i discovered was what a fantastic account this is. you know, i had left albany and really never wanted to come back. you know, i come back for the family, but when the circumstances brought me back and i got thrust into the situation, so i started to see what an epic history this c

where there is a big issue here is the 1909 that's william howard taft dredging together with teddy roosevelt. we can't see them there in the carriage and here's the route they take. that's pennsylvania avenue heading towards the capitol. from 1829 all the way through 1977, which covers the great majority of the american inaugurations they took place on the east side of the capitol that if you've been to washington than you know that's where the library of congress is and the united states supreme court, so here's what that looks like today on any given the that's the east side of the capitol and that's what it looks like with the eustis person that for the inauguration the would have a platform there in front of it and here is another view where you can see the platform to the left there is a press stand in the middle and the crowd gathers. but in 1981 everything switched and they decided to move it to the west side of the capitol and that is much larger and that allows more people to actually see the ceremony. here is what the west side looks like most days and with the jazz it up for the i

here's 1909 that is william howard taft driving together with teddy roosevelt. we can't see them, but they are in the carriage. and here is the route they take. that's pennsylvania avenue heading toward the capitol. now from 1829 all the way through 1977, which covers the great majority of american inaugurations they took place on the east side of the capitol, the east side. if you've been to washington, then you know that is the site where the library of congress is and the united states supreme court. so, here's what that looks like today on any given day that is the east side of the capitol and that's what it looks like when the eustis were set up for the inauguration they would have a platform in front of it. here's another view we can see the platform to the left there is a press stand in the middle and the crowd gathers but 1981 everything switched and they decided to move it to the west side of the capitol and that's much larger and that allows for far more people to actually see the ceremony. here's what the west side looks like most days. and when they

it was the party of teddy roosevelt who founded and set up our national parks system.hose things are important to me, especially as a floridan. so when the party started moving away from those kinds of things, taking away the sunday to go vote, in the african american community, there's a great tradition to go and vote after church. and to take that away, it just seemed like, to me, there was real suppression going on. it wasn't a toll rant party. it wasn't doing what was right for the environment or pub lip education. i'm a public school kid. my dad was on the school board. i have three sisters, two of them public schoolteachers here in florida. i have a heart for that kind of thing. people have told me for a long time, chris, charlie, you've been a democrat. you just didn't know it. >> well, i think they should. if they were reich me and sort of middle of the road and common sense republicans and they see what the leadership of the republican party is doing today, they ought to switch. they ought to become democrats. it's probably more true to their heart and their f

wrote my first book on the progressive era health reform, i did expect to be getting a lot about teddy roosevelt. he was in there but it was women farmworkers in new york city starting their own community clinic in new york and they didn't use the language of rights at the time but they definitely talked in terms of universal, everyone taxes to care, not just those who are unionized or members of unions. is there a gender component? more on the vanguard. in some ways i think there are some connections. the maternity insurance issue have always been a big one. a lot of these critiques of the american way of rationing have been routed in women's experience with health care and the health care needs that women have. maternity coverage, coverage care for children was the impetus behind the 1920s health act. and of course the movement for reproductive rights has at times, i wish more attention were paid to this because it has done this but we hear much less about our reproductive rights activism is also about health care for all, for every body. there's some much focus on women demanding particular r

if you head in on 66 front royal on into falls church and across the teddy roosevelt bridge. here's northbound 95 heading into springfield with the pace good. no active work zones to worry about out of fredericksburg through stafford into quantico. on to woodbridge and spring feed. eing open to go south from that terrible accident last night. that's been completely removed and lanes are open on 395 heading up into 14th street bridge the downtown. maryland of note we've had an issue southbound on 355 with the water main repreships last night. southbound in bethesda at cedar lane and the long-term work zone, one lane squeezed by to the right. old georgetown road might be a better bet heading into bethesda earl year this morning. back to you. >>> thank you. so what's the holiday season without the holiday parties? police want to warn drivers not to get behind the wheel if they've been drinking. >> it is definitely worth repeating because it can save lives. this morning we're going to break some of the popular drinking myths to help keep your alcohol intake under control. delia g

what i will do over the next couple of years is due another edition of the starting with teddy roosevelt a few well and move my way forward and of course indigo to warren harding, woodrow wilson, i don't want to give away the book but dwight eisenhower, franklin roosevelt, probably the worst dog and hendry -- history john kennedy. i may have to stretch this to three or four so stay tuned and perhaps the series will send my kids to college so thanks for that. >> during the research have you discovered similar stories about the private lives of justices of the supreme court, or are they just above reproach? >> the question about the private lives and justices of the supreme court and other politicians. like i said, the more things change. what you find is throughout history the drama, the plot stays the same in this great production of history. just the actors change. early presidents were struggling with issues of privacy. for example john quincy adams wife, the only first lady to be born abroad in england, she was a very private woman and they had a poor marriage. they fought a lot and s

battle names on the stone barriers, we have the examples of patriots like george washington, teddy roosevelt, dwight eisenhower, john f. kennedy who became some of our country's most esteemed leaders after returning from war. we can look to senators ted stevens and daniel inouye who fought in world war ii together and despite representing opposite parties ninteen the lifelong friendship. we can look to john mccain, bob kerrey, chuck hagel, john kerry who despite facing enormous as challenges of war upon returning home, took the lead to normalize relationships in vietnam in helping to heal a wounded nation. it's now our responsibility to uphold the legacy of those who have gone before us. as we in keeping with the mission of united states the united states naval academy assumed the highest responsibilities of command and citizenship in government. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen we are going to make a quick transition in the front of the room to set up for the q&a. by showing a brief video. cue the video. [laughter] if you haven't noticed we have been having a little b

by teddy roosevelt. and stanford white came here somewhere around 1872, and he said of all the terrible things, i've got to spend another night in albany. he said of at one-horse towns, this is the absolute worst. and it was henri and the devil. and i have to spend another night in albany. but, you know, that a changed when the capitol went up. suddenly, albany became a tourist attraction. o albany, which is kind of an impressionistic history of the city, was an ambitious project; 26 articles that covered the whole ethnic history of the city and every geographic neighborhood and a lot more. and it sold extremely well all over the country. it was an unusual development. and it's been selling ever since. it's a phenomenon that i don't quite understand, but what i discovered was what a fantastic town this is. i, you know, i had left this, left albany and really never wanted to come back. you know, i'd come back for the family, but when the circumstances brought me back, then i got thrust into this situation

it was the party of teddy roosevelt who founded and set up our national park system and cared about theonment. those things are important to me. when the party start eed moving away from those thing and taking away the sunday before election to vote. there's a great tradition after church to go and vote in states that have early voting. it just seemed to me there was real suppression going on, it wasn't a tolerant party, it wasn't doing what was right for the environment or public education. i'm a public school kid. my dad was on the school board when i was a kid. i have three sisters, two have been public school teachers here in florida. i have a heart for that kind of thing, and it means an awful lot to me. people have told me for a long time, chris, charlie, you have really been a democrat, you just didn't know it. i mean, these are people that i went to college with and went to law school with. >> are you going to lead the charge -- >> so i'm bloglad to be here. >> are you going to lead the charge around the country for people who were republicans to become democrats. >> i think the

. $25 million declared finished and 97 by teddy roosevelt. stanford white came here somewhere around 1872 when he said of other terrible things have got to spend another night in albany. he said about the one horse towns, this is the absolute worst and it was ennui and the devil. i have to spend another night in albany. that changed when the capital will. suddenly albany became a tourist attraction. kind of an impressionistic city of the history cover the whole ethnic history of the city and every geographic neighborhood and a lot more. and it sold extremely well all over the country. that was an unusual development and has been selling understand. it's a phenomenon that i don't quite understand. but what i discover was what a fantastic time this is. i had less albany and really never wanted to come back. you know, i've come back for the family, but the circumstances brought me back i got thrust into the situation. i started to see what an epic history of city has. it's the second oldest chartered city in the country, in the 17th century. and

he knew that teddy roosevelt was a big thing in tyler's life. 919 edition of roosevelt's letters to his children, signed it. it was wonderful. >> i would imagine you connect with this story, extremely well. >> oh, yeah. yeah. i've got a son who has aspbergers. so when did you first realize your son had it? because it's frustrating after even more frustrating before going what? okay. what's going on here? >> yeah. well, we knew we had a beautiful, lovely quirky boy having a hard time connecting and making friends, but we didn't know what was going on. and we just thought it was, you know, another -- we have three kids, two older, and every one you treat a different way. my wife was watching "parenthood" a drama on this network and she saw the max braverman character who is further higher on the scale on my son, he has more challenges. but she told me when i got home that night, you have to watch this show. and i spent that night, i missed five or six episodes, on the computer watching it with tears pouring down my eyes realizing that, hey, this mi

teddy roosevelt was president. there was no real authority in the federal government at this point to handle a crisis like this. it's hard for us to imagine this now, because we're so used to the feds stepping in and the treasury secretary trying to manage a situation like this. but roosevelt didn't know much about it. the treasury secretary didn't have quite as mu--very much authority. morgan seemed to be the only person who had the ability and the means to do this. so his partners sent him cables in richmond, virginia, about this developing situation, but they didn't want him to come back early because they thought that would spook the already scared market, that if everybody knew that morgan had left this convention to come back to wall street, the panic would get even worse. so he waited till the last possible--till the convention was over, took a night train, arrived at his library on sunday, and spent the day in his library surrounded by his partners and lieutenants, who briefed him on the situation. and then

she's the most urban president we have had since teddy roosevelt and yet we have the infrastructure stimulus package and then the latest highway bill. we had a massive infusion of general tax revenues to pay for drivers. i have no idea why we are driving people to drive long distances. i am a person that believes interest the people should be free to try it if they pay for the cost of their action but we shouldn't be driving the students. we shouldn't be engaging in social engineering that uses federal tax policy to massively subsidize people to move into the to move out of urban apartments to buy homes, which subsidizes to bet on to the housing market which also bribes them to build larger homes. i am a homeowner myself but i think having a current, mortgage interest deduction is crazy. we should slowly on hundred thousand dollars a year and most of all, we need to have even more commitment to the urban schools to it but i would like a world in which we did was subsidizing and have the fed have less engagement and leave cities if they are in power and have the resources to solve their own p

recognized what teddy roosevelt said is the bully pulpit. no, she is in a place of a lot of attention and you might as well use it for sending you care about. she worked very hard, particularly on head start and on the environment. she was, next to johnny appleseed, she was right behind him. [laughter] [applause] this is her 100th birthday year and for her 70th birthday, she gave money to start the national wildflower research center. so that if you want to know about the wild flowers and the native plants in your area, you can now go on the internet. in those days, it was writing us or calling us, and we can tell you what will be best for oregon, what are the things that are native to oklahoma and that will grow the best heat they have their and the lack of water. what will do best in vermont, virginia. let's encourage our natural environment because, one, it is a lot cheaper. and she was a penny pincher. [laughter] frugal is the nice word. but she wanted us to live up to the best that god gave us, and she believed that having those native

i was proud to be ary public i had can, the party of abraham lincoln and teddy roosevelt who startedional parks system. but today, it seems the leadership of the republican party has become a lot more rigid, a lot more challenging. when you look at issues, soledad, like immigration. talk about deportation. when you talk about education, they defund it. talk about voter suppression, they deny voting to people, and i just can't embrace that anymore and be true to myself. >> let me read some of your own quotes back to you. hard to be more conservative than i am on the issues. back on 2009. pro life, pro gun, pro family, i'm anti tax. have you changed on those four specific things? >> no, i'm not saying that at all. i'm pro life, but i don't believe in imposing my will on other people. i believe people should support and protect the second amendment. i believe raising taxes isn't something anybody wants to do. certainly i never wanted to do it as a legislator or as governor. i believe in public safety. i believe in protecting the environment. i live in florida, the most beautiful state i

of the gigantic moose fraternal organization which has counted among its membership presidents teddy rooseveltanklin road svelte, currently senator joe manchin, evan bayh, larry bird of the boston celtics. this is a huge organization, this could be, indeed, a very, very big story. we should point out that dr. jason peck was influenced to come forward with these allegations 32 years later because of the jerry sandusky case. when he saw that, he thought i need to come forward and tell my story. there is a statute of limitations in ohio, it's 12 years after the age of majority which meant that it would have expired about 13 years ago for dr. peck. but because arie left the state of ohio, that statute according to peck's attorneys tolls which means, basically, the clock stops running. so they do believe they have the valid case here, jenna. jenna: john roberts with that exclusive report. john, thank you. jon: and this fox news alert, if you haven't heard about 90 minutes from now we expect president obama to step forward in the roosevelt room alongside senator john kerry, democrat of massachusetts

probably its biggest crisis since teddy roosevelt told the college football, you know, clean up yourgoing to ban it. so it's just looking at the way that he's struggling to acknowledge and address the fact that concussions and traumatic brain injury lead to degenerative dementia, but also preserve the spirit of the game. because on the other side, he's addressing a lot of critics who say, you're watering down the sport, the sport is brutal. the sport has always been brutal. that's the reason we love it. >> first of all, which is huge. even if you broaden it, remember, before even this, he had to deal with the issue of violence within the sport, in terms of also off the field. that is banning players, suspending players. that was the whole issue as well. as relates to the concussions, you've had lawsuits, you've had former players. you see mike ditka out there saying, we haven't done enough. it's also been a part of the collective bargaining agreement, because the current players pay into the system. these guys say, why should i be playing for these old guys. so he's had a very diffic

in the era of teddy roosevelt we had progressives giving a flat tax.hey tried to flatten out social security tax. as a result, we are worried about the long-term solvency of social security. those have to be paid. it is true that the wealthy have invested more, but it is also true that those who are working minimum-wage have invested a lot too. they work hard. having been someone who worked minimum wage to get myself trichology, i held a variety of jobs, i resent the notion that somehow i am not putting in my fair share. these are all things debated. if you like a flat tax, whatever real debate about it. host: a headline in the wall street journal -- we will talk to our viewers in the last half hour to get their take on that. richard in prairie grove, arkansas, independent. caller: clarence, i have a question. do you value your first amendment? the second amendment was not put in place so we could go out and hunt squirrels. it's there for a reason, to protect us from an overbearing government, a king george, that would take away our rights, and the con

. >> teddy roosevelt was sort of -- he created the national parks and was a friend of nature but he alsoou know, teaching your 9-year-old -- >> it would be a sport if they could shoot back. >> there's that. >> it would be sporting. >> stephanie: ray in texas. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hi ray. >> caller: hey, stephanie. calling from fort worth. >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: i'm a little concerned, december 21st is around the corner. we have a lot of survivalist you mentioned the discovery channel. i hear they're heavily armed. heavily armed element with large arsenals of weapons. myself, i'm not going to drive around on the 21st here in texas. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: by the way out here in california, my psychic friends actually says it is just going to be a shift to the positive. [ ♪ circus ♪ ] [ ♪ hypnotic ♪ ] not the end of the world. it is a cosmic shift on the 21st. >> it is passing through the galaxy, the milky way i understand. >> stephanie: my numerologist says that's bull [ bleep ] just kidding. i don't know. >> it actually is something that they predic

especially the major elements of the inherited regime going back to teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilsonontinuing through franklin roosevelt and frankly richard nixon that has a good part of the domestic policy apparatus. they are realistic now. they are not filed by liberals wanting to socialize activities. it's a joke. the understand that the demographic forces at work and health care cost increases will make and they will be absolutely essential unstable and weekend overtime, so they are fully willing to engage in those negotiations. whenever i see a press report well, republicans say no new taxes and democrats say don't touch. and i said which democrats. the president isn't saying it. the leadership of the parties are saying it. they are perfectly prepared to negotiate. but since everyone understands if you are serious about the deficits and the debt you don't begin our program they've and imagine how you are going to sort of put that together in the end. and so, i think that is a sort of fundamental difference. democrats are protective, and therefore their political incentives are t

it was a republican president teddy roosevelt who said we don't want to become a european- style country where people get ahead based on inherited wealth. i would think that we would want to borrow from that vision of america that we're not going to have a country where you get ahead based on the wealth of the parents you are born to. a $5 million individual exemption and a $10 million for a couple is -- we don't need to do that and bring down the 35% rate. there was 3.5 million exemption, 45% rate and that was generous rate. again, i think overwhelming the democrats support that compromise and again, it is hard to imagine republicans threatening to hold up middle class tax cuts because they want to get this super sweetheart tax deal for the very wealthiest estates of the country. on the other, obviously, there was no final agreement, first of all, back in december. there were a lot of moving parts, there are a lot of different versions that what happened there. obviously those items were part of the discussion. but we have had an election where these issues and these contrasting priorit