asked me to take over the united states food administration. o i became food administrator of the united states. continued on that until the time of the armistice in 1918. then i was asked to go to europe on behalf of all the allied governments to take on the food supply responsibility for some 315 million people in eastern europe. >> that work ended when, sir? >> i took it up again in russia in 1923. so you might say i had spent about nine years on that kind of a job. >> by that time were you in the president's cabinet as secretary of commerce. >> i was. >> and then you also had some relief work left to put on your shoulder as secretary of commerce, did you not? >> well, that was the russian problem. >> we had one job in mississippi. >> that's what i was referring to. could you tell us something about that? >> the flood of 1927 was the greatest flood that's ever been known across the mississippi from cairo down. >> and the protections were weak and they all gave way and the country for 1,000 miles north and south and from 70 to 150 miles so pre

food.ould be conserving they could commit to the united states food administration that they would eat more corn, oats, and arrive products, more fish and poultry, but less meat, meat, sugar, and fat. we needed that. at toeded a week -- whe feed our soldiers. also our allies, great britain, france. if you can imagine the western front in northern french -- france, it had torn apart the agricultural region. evil were going hungry in france. we committed ourselves to not only send soldiers over there, but to also allow the french people to survive this war. the same with britain. britain was virtually bankrupt. this is the major reason that convinced woodrow wilson to ask congress for a declaration of war. it is not the zimmerman telegram. it is not that american ships were sunk with submarine warfare. it is that great britain goes bankrupt or almost bankrupt that we finally needed to go into this war. bankrupt, german money rules the european continent. we could not let that happen. the woman -- as a woman in the united states, you can participate in recipe competitions. monthly prizes

president wilson asked me to take over the united states food administration. so i became food administrator of the united states. continued on that until the timÑ of the armistice in 1918. then i was asked to go to europe on behalf of all the allied governments to take over their rehabilitation of the food supply for some 315 million people in europe. >> that work ended when, sir? >> i took it up again in russia in 1923. so you might say i had spent about nine years on that kind of a job. >> by that time, of course, you were in the president's cabinet as secretary of commerce. >> i was. >> and then you also had some relief work left to put on your shoulder as secretary of commerce, did you not? >> well, that was the russian problem. >> we had one job in mississippi. >> that's what i was referring to. could you tell us something about that? >> the flood of 1927 was the greatest flood that's ever been known along the mississippi from cairo down. >> and the protections were weak and they all gave way and the country for 1,000 miles north and south and from 70 to 1

it is been approved by the united states food and drug administration.e now is the chief executive, larry jasinski, the , and derekmit goffer herrera, the first to use it. what was the first and making this a reality? >> in 1997i was injured. i was confined to a chair. i couldn't understand why wheelchairs were the only solution for people who were paralyzed. the thing that pushed me to think about that. marketed the size of the youd the physics of things, don't want a truck of batteries behind it. acknowledged it waspossible, then i motivated to do that. >> slavery, come in on your involvement with the company. >> you are taking something that was commercial. >> that works through fda stageing, the next big for us is to be lived provide this to as many people as we can. what other important thing, 10 days after the approval from the states veterans administration decided to pay for this for veterans. a veteran goes to their hospital and complete the program, they will provide one for them to take home. the value is health benefits. what we believe this

you have to go to the food and drug administration, the united states food and drug administration, and they test it. and if after -- at the end of testing they come up with a conclusion that it is not only safe but effective for what it's being used for, they give the seal of approval. it is the gold standard of safety of pharmaceuticals. food and drug administration supported by the united states government and american taxpayers. and then it isn't over. at least one last stop. you go to the patent office to make sure you protect your intellectual property, this pharmaceutical formula. u.s. patent office supported by the government and u.s. taxpayers. so here is a pharmaceutical company using research, using testing and using protections of patents from our government who says incidentally we're leaving, we don't want to pay taxes to this government. we want to reduce our tax burden to this government. there's something wrong with this picture. 49 of 50 corporations have done it and more are threatening. take a burger king. well, the sale of hamburgers doesn't involve a great deal of