he thought he would be a senator at that time, but he did not think that tommy wilson sounded dignified enough, so with his family's permission he dropped his first name and went by woodrow wilson. back here are pictures of his maternal grandparents, thomas wilson. at princeton, he was president of princeton and governor of new jersey. he was always examining the rules, the bylaws, the constitution, and trying to improve it. as president, some of the first things he did had economic impact. he established under his administration 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 enacted under his watch labor laws, child labor laws, and also railroad worker laws, the eight hour day was established. the child labor laws had to do with the age limits on children working in factories. previously, they had no effect and there were no checks and balances on that. it had been coming along before, but the amendment that made senators elected directly by the people rather than

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 enacted, under his watch, there were enacted labor laws, child labor laws, and also railroad worker laws, the our day was established. the child labor laws had to do with age limits on children working in factories. which previously had almost no effect. there

he thought he would be a senator at that time, but he did not think that tommy wilson sounded dignified so with his family's permission he dropped his first name and went by woodrow wilson. back here are pictures of his maternal grandparents, woodrow thomas wilson. at princeton, he was president of princeton and governor of new jersey. he was always examining the rules, the bylaws, the constitution, and trying to improve it. as president, some of the first things he did had economic impact. he established under his administration 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 enacted under his watch labor laws, child labor laws, and also railroad worker laws, the eight hour day was established. the child labor laws had to do with the age limits on children working in factories. previously, they had no effect and there were no checks and balances on that. it had been coming along before, but the amendment that made senators elected directly by the people rather than

tommy ran inside and asked his father what was war. what did that mean? we think it is his first memory was about another president, abraham lincoln, and another war, the civil war and wilson would have to lead the country through world war i. >> see all of our programs from augusta throughout the day on c-span two tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span three.

tommy ran inside and asked his father what was war. what did that mean? we think it is his first memory was about another president, abraham lincoln, and another war, the civil war and wilson would have to lead the country through world war i. >> see all of our programs from augusta throughout the day on c-span two tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span three. >> joseph bannister is the only pilot in history to captaintwo navy frigates. he fired the first shot. >> this sunday night, author robert kerson on the search for the pirate ship the golden fleece. >> he started off his life not as a pirate but as a noble english sea captain, a gentle man, who is trusted by wealthy shipowners to sell their ship the golden fleece, this 100 foot long sailing ship, between london and port royal, jamaica which was known as the wicked city on earth and to carry valuable cargo like sugar and indigo dyes between london and port royal. he did that responsibly for years. but then one day in 1684, for reasons no one could determine joseph bannister stole the golden fleece and recruited a tough pirate crew and went pirate. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span "q&

tommy asked his father what was war? why were they so excited. we think it's remarkable that his very first memory was about another president abraham lincoln and about another war. wilsone country through world war i. >> see all of our programs from augusta on c-span's 2 book tv and on american history tv on c-span 3. >> president obama signed a three-month extension of highway funding hours before it was set to expire. he also made some brief remarks to reporters in the oval office. president obama: if this wasn't in front of me ready for cigna chures we would have programs that would be frozen after midnight. on the other hand, we have now made it a habit where instead of five-year funding plans for transportation, instead of long-term approaches where we can actually strategize about one of the most important infra struck chures, how are they getting paid for it, the locality about how they are going to approach critical infra struck chure project roads, bridges ports airports. instead hand them out three months at a time which freezes a lot of construction which makes people uncertain. businesses not willing to hire because they don't have any long-term certainty.

when the young tommy wilson did not know the meaning of the word, his father would send him to the dictionary to look at a. he often admonished him to use proper -- properly structured sentences as he could possibly come up with. as a minister, of course, that was an art for him. he would say, when you are framing a sentence, do it as if you are shooting a rifle. and with the rifle with that one bullet, you hit straight on with the word you intend to use. don't do it as if you are shooting a shotgun and you kind of spray all around the word humane. but it doesn't exactly hit the mark. i think that is good advice for us even today when you are trying to write or speak. president wilson's very first memory was in november of 1860, before he was four years old. he was standing on the front he was standing on the front gate, out in front of the house and two men came by in a hurry with very excited tones of voice. and they said abraham lincoln has just been elected president. and there's going to be a war. young tommy ran inside to ask his father what was war, what did that mean, why were they so