theodore wilson: no, i think you're right. i think more overtly perhaps. it has been around for a very long time. >> to what extent is our military today in its ability to adapt to the new requirements of the new kind of warfare been influenced by the changes that you have talked about in society? being reflected also in the military, in terms of the commitment to protecting jobs security etc. in the military, -- but what i'm getting at is the difficulty within the military as well as in civilian life in terms of the military-industrial complex, to adapt to the new demands in terms of the army. theodore wilson: this is the best prepared military force in history, there's no question. it is a force that has made use of all of the armed services, made use of increases in technology and a very effective way. partly, that is because of the shift from manpower to the technology support, or men and women power. partly, for understandable reasons, it is the reflection of the longtime american aversion. there is this effort for all the good reasons, to try to ensu

biography of woodrow wilson and talking about theodore roosevelt and william howard taft in her book, "the bully pulpit." you can watch these anytime at c-span.org.

he's also written on andrew jackson, woodrow wilson and theodore roosevelt. he's written historically on the events and can be seen and heard on the national and international television and radio. he's spoken several times over the years at the national archives for his latest book reagan wife, they were held in the national archives. at the ronald reagan presidential library researched and written correspondence monitored conversations with foreign leaders and give speeches and much more. the book has created from a number of sources into the "washington post" that the legacy continues to fuel the choices facing his would-be successors and the astute biography is further evidence that the 40th president continues to cast a long shadow over a largely conservative political order. please welcome h. w. brands to the stage. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. i'm delighted to be back at the national archives because i can say that none of the books that i've written in this series of which reagan is the last would have been possible without the

director of the richard nixon presidential library scott berg on his biography of woodrow wilson and talking about theodoresevelt and william howard taft in her book. you can watch these anytime at c-span.org. monday night on the communicators, we visited microsoft's washington, d. c. office we will talk about i'm hopeful that at some point congress will take on high skilled immigration. h1b is still important. but when we have some of the innovators here, the researchers that are here, we have from all over the world that make contributions for microsoft scientists and engineers and for other companies as well. it is still a need when you look at it from a job perspective. >> the application of project premonition is actually to collect mosquitoes that have bitten people and to determine

director of the richard nixon presidential library, scott berg on his biography of woodrow wilson and talking about theodore roosevelt and william howard taft in her book, "the bully pulpit." you can watch these anytime at c-span.org. >> it's actually to collect mosquitoes that has bitten people. and determine what kind of viruses might be around. what kind of diseases might be around through taking the blood samples of the mosquitoes and figuring out the genetic code of some of the constituents of their blood. >> premise of this research project was around what we'll be able to do with data that's freely available in the environment today. one of the things we've noticed there are a lot of aircraft flying around in the united states that could be considered sensors. they have data on them, they're providing information. it's relatively freely available. it's provided by the f.a.a. there's companies like flight aware who use that information to provide information to the community about what airplanes are doing. we decided to take that information and see if we could use that to help us predict a more accur

wilson -- the old stable yard was down outside the dining room. she created the rose garden. it was an ugly approach to the new west wing which theodoreoosevelt had built and she wanted it to be pretty so she planted hedges and lines and put a statue in their and grew a lot of roses. it is mainly green because she wanted the president to be able to walk down a pretty way. it did go by the laundry, but they couldn't help that. he went in to the wing there which did have an oval office then. she started the rose garden and it was enhanced over the years and finally, president kennedy himself asked mrs. mellon to redesign it for him and she took it as a sole request and took it upon herself because she was announcer: quite a student of the subject and she redesign the rose garden, not abandoning everything missiles and had done but reinterpreting it and that , is the rose garden we know today. ms. swain: there are so many connections among these first ladies over the years. it was mrs. kennedy decided the practice of greeting dignitaries at national airfields was not symbolic enough and she was the one who suggested using the rose garden

wilson was? professor mcmeekin: yes, although i would say he was not really a traditionalist. he was closer to that because he was a bit more hard-nosed. here again the cardinal example is theodore roosevelt who really did see the u.s. as a more traditional power after all over so our u.s. expansion sending , troops to places like cuba the dominican republic to ensure the security of the panama canal. that is the u.s. behaving as an imperialist power like the others. in fact, tr said had he been present, the u.s. would have gone into war immediately on the side of britain and france, not because of some moral argument related to german war guilt or aggression or violation of belgium. rather because it was in the u.s. interest to ensure balance of power on the continent. this being a more traditional british view of the power balance -- power balancing. you could say that he was effectively acting in the same way as a traditionalist might have, in terms of british poor and policy interest. fdr saw his gold -- saw his goal was to eradicate the people government that had arisen in not the germany and japan. militarism along with the theology of the nazis with its racial tones and s