. >> host: did thomas dewey respond the pop uist attacks?e wanted to but his advisers said-don't get in the gutter with that guy. you're going to be president. stay away from these issues. and even at the beginning of the campaign, foreign policy gets taken off the table. and dewey is counsel eled to do this. he says we all have to work together once this is settled out, so don't muddy up the water. >> host: arthur vandenberger, a republican. >> guest: the fellow who started the bipartisan foreign policy thing, which we had for a while up until vietnam. and we haven't had pretty much since. then truman would launch these attacks about big business and even where like fascists were in back of dewey and over the top stuff, where even truman would -- he would look back and like, i said that? that's sheer demagoguery. and some of his advisers even recoiled but the advisers in the republican party, the neighbors in dewey's home around putnam county, new york, a well-to-do area, and his wife are saying, hold back, hold back and that's exactly what

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this week, thomas dewey. the new york republican would lose to fdr in 1944 and harry truman. at 7:30, american history tv this weekend on c-span3. > journalist, david enders, spend time on the ground. reporting on alongside opposition fighters. he says they are gaining ground again syrian president assad's forces. there will be it remarks from for vice-president john chaney's advisor john hanna. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >> let's get started. there are a few people outside. i am the president of this foundation. i want to welcome everyone. thank you for being here. i am glad that we plan this foundation for the defense of democracy. most people are probably familiar with us. in the aftermath of the 911 attacks, we focused on national- security and foreign-policy issues. we worry about terrorism and those machines and ideologies that are seeking the downfall and destruction of the u.s., israel, and other free nations. with that, i will pass the microphone to john. he will moderate. hopefully he will also offer up his own opinion and introduce our guest. thank you. >> ok.

since franklin roosevelt versus thomas dewey. >> reporter: even though jobs are the number one issuen in syria. a potential nuclear power in iran over the next few years. lot of foreign policy issues still trying to get out of afghanistan that neither person has experience in the military is a choice that american voters haven't had in almost 70 years. i think what you're really going to see is something that dana pointed out. it just doesn't seem to matter. maybe we should have seen this coming when bill clinton took out two war heroes, george bush and bob doyle. when senator john kerry fell to george w. bush. when barack obama beat john mccain. military service doesn't translate to being essential to being the commander in chief. >> here is what translates, dollars and cents. the president, just yesterday, if they didn't reach a compromise in terms of the pentagon the number is $500 billion. the pentagon will be forced to cut $500 billion. president obama said it was the republicans who were, i'm quoting the president, playing politics with our military. they have to get serious ab

this week, thomas dewey. he rose to fame. the new york republican would lose to f.d.r.nd harry truman. "american history tv," this weekend, on c-span 3. >> "washington journal" continues. host: michele flournoy is at the table this morning. former undersecretary of defense for policy, serving in that role from 2009 to just recently. she now is the co founder of a think tank in washington. yesterday with the failure of thetown find a diplomatic solution. and the news that rerebel -- that the rebels are fighting back. where is this all going, do you think? guest: i think we are in a new chapter on the ground in syria and things are deepening into a civil war and this is a real important moment. -- in that the obama administration has been pushing from the beginning for a political transition -- transition process. he's killed his own people by the those. he has no standing anymore. he is not going to be part of the future of syria. the real question is how do you engineer a transition where he steps away and there's some sort of democratic process in syria? there's a very

this week, thomas dewey. he rose to fame prosecuting depression-era gangsters, but the republican would lose to both fdr in 1944 and harry truman in 1948. american history tv, this weekend on c-span 3. >> tonight, a clock 30, -- at 8:30, women leaders take part in the national journal's conference on women in washington d.c. here's a portion of the discussion with kay bailey hutchison. >> do you think that you will see a woman elected president? >> yes, i do. >> when you think that will happen? >> i thought it would have happened by now. but i do think that it will happen. i think that we are becoming so much more equal in our experience and credentials that it is less of a factor now. i think it will happen when the time is right. i think we are tough enough, we are treated pretty much the same, i think people do not think of us as women candidates as much anymore. they think of us as -- what do you want to do, what are your plans, what is your platform? they then vote their own interests. that is good, i th

this week, thomas dewey rose to fame prosecuting depression-era gangsters. the new york republican would lose about fdr in 1944, and harry truman and 48. at 730 eastern and pacific american history tv this weekend on tv -- seized and three. >> it was about those men and women who were almost mortally injured and more who, because of the huge advances that have been made in medical trauma treatment over the last ten years, now they're being saved. an incredible number of them are being saved. almost everybody who falls in the battlefield is being saved. and i wanted to write about what life was like for these people, and i really started off with a question, having seen some people who were pretty, pretty gruesomely named, wouldn't it be better off if they were dead? don't their wish that there were dead? >> and beyond the battlefield, his 10-part pillows are winning series for the huffington post and then the subsequent e-book david woods spoke with veterans and their families as well as surgeons, combat medics, therapists, nurses on the daily struggles for

this week, thomas dewey rose to fame prosecuting depression-era gangsters. the new york republican would lose to fdr in 1944 and harry truman in 1948. american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> watch booktv and american history tv as we explore the heritage and literary culture of louisville, kentucky. >> a lot of the stores are have seen fail our stores for opene -- were stores opened by people interested in having a business. not that they had an attachment to books or the love of books, but they were business people. i think you have to have a debt attachment -- gut attachment to books to care about them. the customers are like that. they come because they really love books. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we have learned about the debt switch. some banks have gone to manipulate the offer rate. james angel joins us for a discussion on the so-called libor scandal. help us understand why the average consumer should care about libor manipulations. guest: there are over 300 trillion dollars of financial instruments tied to libor, including perha

was in in kansas city. >> host: and also you write in 1948 with regard to thetrain trip about thomas dewey taking his train trips, but not getting off the train to greet the -- >> guest: yeah, yeah. truman has, you know, two whistle stops tours for truman. and it's always good to try your act out on the road. so truman tries his act out in the spring and goes around, and the first part of his trip he makes all kinds of mistakes. he's kind of like joe s. biden, quite frankly. he's pretty, pretty rough out there. but coming back he gets a little better, and he's doing it for real and very well in the fall which is when it counts. but dewey, dewey goes into -- now, he, he stops in oklahoma. the fellow was mentioning oklahoma. dewey makes about seven or eight stops or ten stops in oklahoma. his wife is from oklahoma. but oklahoma, it's oklahoma. ohio is always the game then and now. truman makes all these stops in ohio, dewey makes, like, two. and when he does, they've got a crowd of people outside waiting for him to come out on the train, say hello to them, say a few words, he won't come out.

this week, thomas dewey rose to fame prosecuting depression-era gangsters. he lost twice.t 7:30 p.m., "american history td" on c-span3. >> it was about those men and women who are almost mortally injured in war. who, because of the huge advances that have been made in medical trauma treatment over the last 10 years are being saved. an incredible number of them. almost everybody who falls in the battlefields is being saved. i wanted to write about what life was like for these people. i started off with a question having seen some people who were pretty gruesome remained. it wouldn't it be better off if they were dead? >> his 10 part poser winning series for "the huffington post" and in the subsequent article, he spoke with combat medics, therapists, and nurses on the daily struggles for those severely wounded in military operations. learn more sunday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome congressman joe wilson, republican of south carolina. there is a hearing today looking at sequestration. here is a headline based on th

this week thomas dewey the new york republican with louis in 1944, and harry truman and 48. 7:30 eastern and pacific. american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> there has been a hostility in poverty. since the war on poverty lyndon johnson was the best president and looked at poverty issues and spend money on it and talk about the social service programs. lyndon johnson. let's follow that by i hate to say this but richard nixon is actually the father of the minority business development. and inside his minority business established the small business administration minority business agency coming and use the term economic justice, richard nixon, economic justice. global financial from hsbc head of compliance david bagley told a senate homeland security subcommittee today that he will step down the charges the british bank if terrorists, drug cartels and criminals access to the u.s. financial system by failing to guard against money laundering. the settlement security subcommittee released a report documented a and decade of compliance failures at hsbc, europe's largest banks. >> i

this week, thomas dewey. he would lose to both fdr and harry truman. at 7:30 p.m. eastern and pacific. >> 17 months into the conflict in syria, an estimated 17,000 people have died in the country. now we hear from university of oklahoma middle east senator elector on the ongoing violence and why he thinks the u.s. should not get involved. this is about an hour. i am haleh esfandiari. i run the middle east program for the center. it is a great pleasure to be here. and to welcome our speaker from oklahoma, the director of the middle east studies at the university of oklahoma, and the author of a daily newsletter on syria. i have known him for a long time. we first met when i was teaching at princeton and he was a grad student working on syria. the professor has won the best teacher prize at his university, raised over $1 million for a new share in iran in studies, which is very close to my heart, and helped bring a government-funded flagship program to the diversity of all,. he has lived for years -- of oklahoma. the has lived for four years in syria. the last time i

this week, thomas dewey who prosecuted the inkster's but he would lose to both fdr and harry truman. at 7:30 eastern and pacific, american history tv this week and on c-span 3. >> ben bernanke says the u.s. may go back into a recession if congress does not deal with automatic spending cuts and talks that -- tax rate changes, scheduled to go into effect at the end of the year. he is on how -- capitol hill for a semiannual testimony. he was before the senate banking committee for two and a half hours. >> i called the hearing to order. today, we welcome chairman burning take -- chairman bernanke back to the committee to deliver the semi annual policy report. the legacy of the financial crisis still weighs heavily on our nation's economy and financial system today. following the longest recession since the great depression, the economy has grown slowly but steadily since 2009. we have come along way but there is still a lot of work left to be done to get our economy back to the point where jobs are readily available and wages are rising for american workers. while the economy is not goin

this week, thomas dewey. the new york republican it would move to both fdr in 1944 and harry truman in 1948. at 7:30 eastern and pacific. >> at the economic club of washington, goldman sachs chairman and ceo loyd blank find discussed the european debt crisis, the global economy, and lessons learned from the financial crisis. on the libor rate fixing scandal, he said the impact of the scandal was undermining the integrity of the financial system. he was interviewed by the economic club of d.c. president. >> loyd has been the ceo and chairman of goldman sachs since 2006 when his predecessor, hank paulson, left to become secretary of the treasury. he grew up in brooklyn. his father worked in the post office, like my father, and did not have a lot of money, but he got scholarships and did quite well in school. he was valedictorian at thomas jefferson high school. he went to harvard on a scholarship. he graduated in 1975 and then went to harvard law school. he then joined a law firm in new york. prior to that he h

this week, thomas dewey who rose to fan prosecuting prosecuting cancers but the new republican wouldose to fdr in 1944 and harry truman in 1948. at 7:30 eastern and pacific. that is this weekend on cspan 3. >> yesterday, the senate health education committee held a meeting on tuition costs and making college affordable. the dean of michigan state university and the iowa state university were among the witnesses and the discussed strategies being employed by institutions to lower college costs including a redesigned projects and financial aid literacy class is. this is about one hour, 50 minutes. >> this will come to order. as we approach of a new academic year, families across america are struggling to pay the escalating cost of college. during these economic times, soaring tuition and shrinking real incomes are making college less and less affordable. over the past decade, state and local funding for students dropped by 25% while tuition and fees at four-year public schools increased by 72%. student debt crossed the $1 trillion marks unsurpassed credit card debt for the first time e

this week thomas dewey ran to fame prosecuting gangsters. that is at 7:30 p.m. eastern eastern and pacific. that is on c-span3. >> now rahm emanuel discusses the ongoing debate between tax rates and economic development. he says once government gives businesses certainty they will create jobs. his comments came during a center for american progress and bent on infrastructure projects and the economy. ray lahood introduced him and delivered brief remarks. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> i do not want to take any time away from what the mayor will want to talk about. i'm going to get right to my introduction of him. if some of the afterword want to talk for a minute or two, i would be happy to do that. a few days before the last presidential an election i got a phone call from our rahm emanuel. he said to me brock wants me to be his chief of staff. i said do you think we ought to have the election first before easter thinking about what your next job is? he called me a few days later and said i am going to take it. notwithstanding what i told him, i thin