woodrow wilson, woodrow being his mother's maiden name. back here are pictures of his maternal grandparents, thomas woodrow, for whom he was named, his grandfather and his grandmother, marion williamson woodrow. wilson was a great reformer. he was interested in even from childhood, translating into his career at princeton university as president of princeton and then as governor of new jersey and then as president of the united states, he was always examining the rules, the bylaws of the constitution, and trying to improve it. as president, some of the first things he did were had economic impact, he established the under his administration, the federal reserve act was established, setting up a system of national banking. the clayton trust act, which took the antitrust laws a little farther than they had gone in previous acts. he enacted under his watch, there were enacted labor laws, child labor laws.laws. and also railroad worker laws. eight-hour day was established. the child labor laws had to do with age limits on children working in factories. which previously had almost no, no effect. there was no checks and balances on that. it actually h

his name was thomas woodrow wilson, he only dropped his first name after he started to law school at university of virginia. because he felt that one day he would become an important political figure, he thought at that time he would be a senator. but he didn't think that tommy wilson sounded dignified enough, so with his family's permission he dropped his first name and just went by woodrow. woodrow being his mother's maiden name. back here are pictures of his maternal grandparents, thomas woodrow, for whom he was named, his grandfather, his grandfather marion woodrow. woodrow was a great reformer, interested in, even from childhood, translating into his career as president and governor, and then president of the united states come he was always examining the rules, the bylaws, the constitution. and trying to improve it. as president, some of the first things he did were to have economic impact, he established the federal reserve act, setting up a system of national banking. the clayton antitrust act, which took the antitrust laws farther than they had gone in previous acts. he enac

today may have failed is because the tradition of economic populism that he and jackson and woodrow wilson and thomasjefferson represented became less salient when progressives became more concerned about extending equality and other disadvantaged groups and i thought that was a powerful argument for another tr reason all of us have to ask given the fact our hero is so inspiring and salient and relevant to issues from breaking up the banks why would they not embrace more than the libertarian conservatives who should be natural constituency and here i think my thought is that brandeis was opposed to business and government and by contrast libertarian conservatives to support the big government may be less suspicious and some have embraced the freedom to fail and some libertarian liberals who oppose the government are less concerned about the corporate power. >> to several libertarians support it as opposed to corporate power. >> just remember in the 1920s and 30s there was no civil liberties tradition in this country. the aclu was still a struggling and profitably while organization as was the naacp.