>> vanderbilt understood the power of draw drama. a chilling conversation they had with the translation of the killing views. >> tell them adolph hitler is the man of that power. tell them that adolph hitter his been sent by the almighty . what about the jews, your lesson ex- ex-sy. >> tom doroth doherty. he finds it quite remarkable. when you look at the film with modern eyes how profetic the film is. at that time 1933 doherty points out that america was more concerned about issues at home. >> they were far away and not on many people's radar. on on this film you have corneil us vanderbilt. they are clear eyed about persecution of the jews. which brought up in a way in this film that you wouldn't see in hollywood until year later. >> vanderbilt saw the up ragech he. >> grabbing the fil filmness fid to save and i crawled under the car and glued the cans to the bottom with tape. what happens next becomes a shock to the film maker hit letter the reign of terror screened in new york and clog and san francisco. but it was immediately pan

but in this film you have cornelius vanderbilt jr. and the reporter who interviews him, edwin c.they're very cleared high about the jews which is brought up repeatedly in this film in a way that you will not see brought up in hollywood cinema until years later. >> reporter: vanderbilt saw the threat and the uproar his film was likely to generate going so far as to smuggle the film canisters in a spy movie caper. >> some adhesive tape, i climbed under the car and glued the cans to the bottom with tape. >> reporter: but what happened next may have come as a shock to the filmmaker. the "hitler reign of terror" was panned. it was called heavy handed, and they dismissed the notion that hitler could be any global threat. and then vanderbilt's movie faced the kind of pressure that document aariens would never imagine. hollywood gave hitler's "reign of terror" the cold shoulder. >> in the 1930s motion pictures had no first amendment rights. that seems incredible to us today, but in 1915 the u.s. supreme court ruled that movies were, quote a business pure and simple and as a business movi

is there a cover-up going on with the vanderbilt rape case, four are charged.whether the star quarterback helped move the alleged victim. gary tuchman gets some answers tonight. i'm only in my 60's. i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call now and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance plans, it helps pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. to me, relationships matter. i've been with my doctor for 12 years. now i know i'll be able to stick with him. [ male announcer ] with these types of plans, you'll be able to visit any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. plus, there are no networks, and

. >> reporter: the production seems crude by today's standard but in this film neil vanderbilt tried to warn the world is. >> the jeremy people suffered so long that they were willing to accept the promises of anyone who held out a new future. >> reporter: a film camera and his great grandfather's well-known name, which gave him access in pre-war germany. >> i'm an american newspapers man, your excellency. what message do you have for the american people. >> reporter: using an actor for hitler. >> what about the jews, your senexcellency. >> see this man here. he will tell you about the jews. >> reporter: film professor wrote "hollywood and hitler," and i finds vanderbilt's clarity quite remarkable. >> when you look at the film with modern eyes you're struck by the menace of naziism. >> it was a box office bomb called heavy handed and ridiculed for suggesting that hitler might be a global threat. the film was thought to all but disappear until a championships, what is believed to be the copy of hitler reign of terror, they're accusing hollywood that effectively stretch the reach of th

gators 4 and 4 heading into the match up against vanderbilt.anderbilt living large because they would go in snapping a 22 22-winning streak for the gators. ththe last time that they beat florida was when ronald reagan was president and backstreet boys were around. can he do it again tomorrow against the packers? our john henry smith spoke t to shah rein williams. >> he played two great games back-to-back and then passed for 60 yards against the cowboys and got hurt in that game as well. another start and it has gotten him another start. they're not ready to commit to him yet, but nick foles looked awfully good last week. now he needs to show the consistency to keep this job. >> how much trouble are they without aaron rogers? it's been 21 years since the packers have had a quarterback miss back-to-back games. the last game that rogers missed was with rogers with a concussion. he's probably going to be out three to four weeks. they think they can weather the storm, but this is a guy who didn't show up until september 4th. he's only made 21 starts

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woodall and her sister had made the acquaintance of vanderbilt. the sisters were looking to get rich. and woodhall wanted to fund her political aspirations. they wanted to get rich and opened the first female owned brokerage in 1870. the firm lasted only a few years, and they were largely dismissed as a joke. to be sure, they were more keen on courting publicity than on analyzing earnings. but they were certainly savvy marketers and they courted publicity so well that one can liken them to many of their modern day cohorts in the brokerage industry. heddy green is usually dismissed as a miserly eccentric and dubbed the witch of wall street and her fashion choice do nothing to help her shed that image. she was wealthy and vastly increased her fort tune through shrewd investments. her unfortunate nickname overlooks her keen financial mind and her participation in key events of the times. from a broader perspective, the business dealings of these women help not only draw the attention of other women to finance, but to raise the public scrutiny of whet

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let's say the vanderbilt-tennessee game being played at knoxville, home of the university of ten, vanderbilt gets home with one yard line and the university of tennessee says well, we're the home team so we'll just add 20 yards to the field or whatever it takes for us to win the game. or the boston red sox playing at home, let's say they're behind the cardinals this year and they get to the ninth inning, they're behind, and they say, well, it's our home field, we'll just add a few innings or whatever it takes so we can win the game. that's what the democratic majority did today. they said the rules don't allow us to do what we want to do, so we'll just change the rules to do whatever it takes to get the result we want. that's what they did with obamacare. we remember that. i was standing right here at this desk. it was snowing. it was the middle of the winter. senators were coming in in the middle of the night. and what happened? among the things that the american people like the least about obamacare was that it was crammed down the throat of the american people by the raw exercise of parti

william schaffner studies infectious diseases at vanderbilt university. >> the food and drug administration in that kind of an emergency has developed a process where unlicensed drugs-- and in this case a vaccine-- can be introduced to be used just in that specific patient or in this public health circumstance. >> reporter: princeton students like emma kurz have been following news of the outbreak closely. >> everyone's on their toes-- as they should be-- about the spread of this disease. >> reporter: will you get the meningitis "b" advantage mean? >> i think i will. i'd rather take the chance to be safe rather than being at high exposure. >> reporter: since march, 7 people at princeton university have contracted meningitis "b." six of the seven patients have recovered. the most recent case is a male student who is still hospitalized. meningitis spreads through close contact including coughing, kissing, sneezing and sharing food and drinks. >> the person can become semicomatose or even comatose and this can happen within a matter of hours so it's a very serious infection. >> reporter: accor

and willy vanderbilt was no exception. he was a spoiled playboy and inherited this fortune. and he had one affair after another e another openly. alba was required to keep her mouth shut and be the hostess. he she was unhappy and described the years as leading up to her daughter's husband as the worst of her life. she felt trapped and dissatisfied. and she met a man and fell in love with him but she can not a an affair with him. there is no way she could do what all of the men were doing. and she finally in an attempt to save her marriage turns to willy and says can we take a family vacation and they go to paris. but it is disaster. willy starts an affair with her best friend and a high class prostitute and runs around paris with these two women completely humiliating her. she kicks him out and says that is it. everyone in her life says you cannot do that. the lawyer with whom she tries to file divorce papers against says i will not do it for you. you would be ridiculous. all of the friends are up in arms. the tabloids can you imagine. they descend on her. we have the wealth

i was add graduate school at vanderbilt, and i did take one writing course there, not in terms of learninging more writing. i don't know that i got any advice there as i just wrote a lot. >> do you think that writers can be taught, or are you inately a born writer? >> i don't know. i never try to guess or judge what other people should do. i've seen people that are taking courses and have done very well with it. ann patchett went to the university of iowa writing school, and i think that helped a little bit. >> we wish you good luck with this one. >> he doesn't need it. you need it. he's fine. >>> as those holiday invitations pile up because you know you're popular, the calories can pile on, people. >> madeline is here to help you cut the creep. >> we don't mean the guy you're dating. >> maybe you should, though. >> maybe cut them both. [ female announcer ] this is laura. laura's being healthy and chewing her multivitamin. with one-a-day vitacraves for women! it's a great-tasting gummy multivitamin designed for women with more calcium and vitamin d. it's gummies for grown-ups. get $2 off a

you know sometimes faculty senate's -- you are president of vanderbilt -- they are very difficult. i taught in higher ed. i know what it is like to be in faculty. when we talk about innovation, we have to talk about every great leader has a board of regents, a state legislative body, and an internal governing body. he was able to come up with lifting the faculty to take on more courses, getting students to take online credits, and do many other things, including transfers from community colleges. his goal was to get more people in and to make sure more people graduate. thank you very much, senator mikulski. i will turn to senator hagan and senator burke for purposes of introduction. you, mr. chairman. it is my pleasure and honor to introduce dr. scott ralls. it is about a 30 minute drive from one of our community colleges from anyplace in the state, and the system has about 800,000 students. alls understands the needs of our students. in 2009, he began an initiative within the system called the with the ultimate goal of fostering students success and completion of the program. it i

that osmanli makes us better off john: there are these tycoons from previous years cornelius vanderbiltller and people who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >>hey fundamentally transformed the lives of americans andaising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same i true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fak beard and chemistry of people ♪ john: it will come to an end. the sooner the better the billions we spend on foreign aid. much of which is squandered or stolen. i agree with ron paul and his son, the senator. we should stop almost all foreign aid. the one libertarians say at people need angry. >> cut off american assistance to the

that osmanli makes us better off john: there are these tycns from previous years cornelius vanderbiltr and people who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. by the way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on a fake beard and chemistry of people ♪ john: it will come to an end. the sooner the better the billions we spend on foreign aid. much of which is squandered or stolen. i agree with ron paul and his son, the senator. we should stop almost all foreign aid. the one libertarians say that people need angry. >> cut off american assistance t

apologize, he said this phrase, he was disappointed in this, and he said i fumbled, fumble is fine what vanderbiltagainst university of georgia, you can have fumbles and team gets point, but the problem is that is not a fumble this is a train wreck, affects the u.s. people in huge ways. lou: the president against, seems to miss the political point. he seems maladroit. because, as you suggest, there are great questions if not in fact a absoluteecertainty this is unconstitutional, and unlawful. but there is also a very clear impress that state insurance commissioners are not going to follow-up and do his bidding, there seems to be expectation on part of president, who said today people can do what they want, because i'm the president, and i say so. >> yeah. which is not -- not the way our republic is set up. the constituent commissioner on their -- state commissioner on their own accord do this. there is regulatory processes within the state. the president did not quite go to the line of demanding that state commissione commissionerso this. they said they don't have the authority, let me tell you wh

>> on you and only you, in other states top providers like cedars-sinai in los angeles,ary vanderbiltbeen left out, depending on plan you are forced into, you may have to pay out of pocket. >> you know, you are on to something that a lot of folks are missing, the magnitude of this that it is far beyond keeping your doctor, keeping your plan. this is being able to go where you need to go when you are hurting, badly hurting. maybe even dying. that has a multiplier affect that could be devastating ? >> absolutely, this is about real people who will serve real consequences, this is the natural outcome of the law. you cannot increase -- by requiring people who are already sick and eliminates caps to benefits, you increase their cost, and try to force down premium they charge, what is going to get squeezed is the per vice services they provide. neil: we should be grateful no one said if you want your hospital you can keep it. that is one area they have been honest. for now. michael thank you very much. >> any time. neil: all right, what is the deal with government workers and porn? none of

tara vanderbilt, living proof of that.ictory of her illustrious career, as the cardinal takes down florida gulf coast. >>> fun in the sun for cal at the maui invitational. they lose for the second time. the bears of dayton turns it on in the 2nd half. kyle davis, just a freshman. clears the lane and rams it. he had a dozen. dayton breezes in. 82-64 final. >>> one of the 49ers still ticked off about that loss to the saints almost two weeks ago. dante whitner sounding get in the bag, get in the bag, get in the bag, ow! there's a better way to save... at the sears black friday sale. doorbusters start 8pm thanksgiving day. this 32" tv is just 179.99. and get 50% off this kenmore fridge. holiday a better way. sears. >>> past the point of of being a habit for the sharks. just the way of life for them. they need overtime. again, regulation not enough at the tank. 2nd period, sharks down 1-0. joe pavelski flips it in off the backhand. it's 1-1. joe thornton shoots it off the goalie's skates. a 2-1 lead, but it didn't hold up. l.a.

he's committed to vanderbilt. up 17-3. a keeper here.e picks up 11 yards but comes up injured on the play. he's a tough kid. he gets up and carries on. later in the quarter, briar woods leads 24-10 at halftime. 27 yard hook up here. 24-17. then the end of the third, they tie up this ball game. travis fogel, a short pass. 87 yards to the house. we are tied up at 24. both teams score on their first overtime possession after the spartans settle for a field goal. going for the win, they get it on this keeper. briar woods take it 37-24. >> i knew it was going to hurt. i only get one last chance my senior year. i'm not going to let an injury stop it. at halftime, we were talking about not to break the ball. i love these boys, they are brothers. i will fight for them any day. they are family. >> what's going to happen next year. i said i ain't worried about next year. i'm riding number 7s coat tails as far as i can. his perseverance through pain and will to win is second to none. >> still live in their quest for a fourth straight state champion

tara vanderbilt, living proof of that., as the cardinal takes down florida gulf coast. >>> fun in the sun for cal at the maui invitational. they lose for the second time. the bears of dayton turns it on in the 2nd half. kyle davis, just a freshman. clears the lane and rams it. he had a dozen. dayton breezes in. 82-64 final. >>> one of the 49ers still ticked off about that loss to the saints almost two weeks ago. dante whitner sounding off big time. the sharks are again going to overtime. the shootout at the bank. great finish, sports part 2 in a moment. >>> past the point of of being a habit for the sharks. just the way of life for them. they need overtime. again, regulation not enough at the tank. 2nd period, sharks down 1-0. joe pavelski flips it in off the backhand. it's 1-1. joe thornton shoots it off the goalie's skates. a 2-1 lead, but it didn't hold up. l.a. tied it, sent it to overtime. it will go to a shootout. joe thornton, the captain, the vet, nice game winner. the sharks prevail over the kings. >>> i'll tell y

at osmanli makes us bette off john: there are these tycoons from previous years cornelius vanderbiltnd people who vilify them. they did some charity work. they were evil robbers. >> they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans and raising living standards. rockefeller brought us well and made profits. byhe way, he probably is also responsible for saving the whal because he pushed down the price of oil it was no longer profitable to how best to extinction henry ford makes jeep automobiles. it does not matter that is motive was profits. he made automobiles affordable for the average middle-class american. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons of the late 19th and early 20th century. john: thank you. up next, if i put on aake beard and chemistry of people give me mon this is the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. it's not the "fumbling around with rotating categories" card. it's not the etting blindsided by limits" card. it's the no-game-playing, no-earning-limit-having, deep-bomb-throwing, give-me-the-ball-and-i'll-take- it-to-the-house, cash back

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the national book award for nonfiction that your went to tj stiles for his biography of cornelius vanderbilt and the 2009 high outcries or the history of the great depression and the forgotten man. the pulitzer prize for a biography went to johnny jim and his account of the presidential tenure of andrew jackson. his book was discussed in 2008. >> i began this book five years ago. partly because it was the period in which david mccullough's john adams was doing so well and and benjamin franklin by will drive that captured the popular imagination and my sense was that if we were going to go back and recover these early figures, we should recover someone who represents the best of it in the worst of it. and andrew jackson surely does that. he teaches as much by vices as he does by virtues. so this is not -- you can't really have anything other than it works with andrew jackson. but they are on a man who ultimately kept the possibility of progress alive by preserving the union. >> over the next few weeks, booktv is much all the programs online at booktv.org. >> we continue with the recognition o

. >>> since 1945, florida got this crazy touchdown pass against vanderbilt.dy wins, the commodores had lost to florida 22 straight time and hadn't beaten the gators in their home stadium in 68 years. >>> still to come on this saturday night edition of sportswrap, reinforcements on their way for the 49ers and how much money would it take to get tiger woods go to turki to play in the turkish airline opens in the answer is $3 million, the guarantee that tiger gets for gration the tournament with his presence and this is tiger with the errant tee-shot and he went on to birdie this hole. no such result at 16, where another tree took its toll and tiger made bogey. there are no trees when you are on the green and at 18, tiger rolled this putt in for birdie and end up with a 6, tied for third, but six strokes back from leader victor dubuisson of france. >>> tomorrow's nascar race in arizona, johnson will be on the pole as he tries toorin the driving championship for the sixth tame. at phoenix international speedway, keselowski had to head in for body and fender work

he won a fellowship -- went to vanderbilt and won a fellowship to harvard divinity school and he had an interest in government and public policy, and i suggested to him that he ought to start at the bottom, and he is an ordained minister in harlem, and a democratic district leader, and one day, one day he may sit in city hall. [applause] >> the best question of all: what advice would you have for improving one are -- one's tennis game and can this be applied to life? >> well, i have a lot of people here tonight with whom i've played tennis over the years. ronald t. gault has carried me -- he is over yonder. he has carried me on many a time, and when i was clearly the least of the four people on the court, ron stayed with me anyhow. skip hartman would come out and try to teach me how to hit aforehand or backhand. seriously, you learn something about a person by their behavior on a tennis court. you truly do. isn't that right, bobby? >> okay. thank you very much, mr. mayor. and we're ready for the signing. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen, please, one more r

vanderbilt, man. >> they beat tennessee in an incredible game saturday night. if they win saturday they'll be 8-4 for the second consecutive year. james franklin, our coach, is an incredible miracle worker. this career, think about this. vanderbilt beat tennessee, georgia and florida in the same season. >> unbelievable. >> richard haass, because you run a one world conspiracy and a response for everything including the weather we're going to blame you for snow flurries on saturday. what's that about? and we're going to have snow on thursday. how do you defend yourself? you got snow making machines in the tristate area? >> they work overtime at the council on foreign relations. >> can you guys believe that? snow. >> yeah. >> i get blamed for so much else. >> a white thanksgiving. of course, it may be bing crosby's best song that we've never heard of. white thanksgiving. >> is it time to get rid of it. i by mistake looked at you. >> one week from today. put the "x" on the calendar. >> i'm getting comments wherever i go. >> you're getting comments. i'm getting hat

. >> there are these tycoons from previous years, like cornelius vanderbilt and john d. rockefeller and people vilify them as robber barons and say well, they did some charity work, but they were evil robbers. >> no, they fundamentally transformed the lives of americans in the 19th century and raised awful our living standards. rockefeller brought us oil and made profits in doing it and by the way, he probably also is responsible for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil so much, it was no longhorn profitable to hunt whales to extinction. henry ford comes in and builds automobiles a little later and makes them cheaper for people. it didn't matter that his motive was profit. the result was that he made automobiles affordable for average middle class americans who had never had an opportunities to do that before. the same is true of most of these so-called robber barons. >> thank you. up next, you ready to freeload? if i put on a fake beard and beg on the street, will people give me money? >>> it's a foolish policy and it will come to an end the sooner

vanderbilt's harris thought he had the net. it was in the arms of holwood who had to do a scrogling act for a touchdown. real madrid's lopez makes the catch along the sideline and flips it over his head. but this was only the half time buzzer. this next shot i'm going to show you won the game. >> goes to jeffrey. gets the shot off. got it. >> jeff green and the celtics feel the heat. check that o. we used to do that all the time at butler, right. >> you were at the 49er game, yesterday, ken. >> yeah. what surprised me was they only rushed four guys against kap. >> four guys. >> that's a lot. i love watching tv outside. and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i told you. no. yeah! no. the important part is that you're happy now. and i got you this visor. you made a visor! yes! that i'll never wear. ohh. [ male announcer ] ge

. >> there are these tycoons from previous years, like cornelius vanderbilt and john d.nd people vilify them as robber barons and say well, the did some charity work but they were evil robbers. >> no. the fundamentally transformed the lives of americans in the 19th century and raised all of our living standards. rockefeller brought us oil and made profits in doing it. by the way, he probably also is probably for saving the whales because he pushed down the price of oil so much it was no longer profitable to hunt whales to extinction. henry ford comes in and builds automobiles a little bit later and makes them cheaper for people. it didn't matter that his prottipro motives was profits. he made automobiles affordable for average americans who couldn't do that before. the same was true with most of the so-called rob bettber baron the 19th creentury. >> if i put on a fake beard and beg on the street will people give me money? . xipl hi hi ♪(whistling tune) ♪("don't worry be happy") ♪ john: it will come to an end. the sooner the better the billions we spend on foreign aid. mu

. >> you are in the vanderbilt hospital, and you had a bad accident and you lost one of your arms.aked out. i said, "okay". and she said, "you are gonna be all right". i am just glad a got a new lease on life. that's what matters right? i love my family so much for having my back. i really do. ♪ >> i think you both have to address the stress associated with this. and we actually reached out to anti-velum, and they're gonna provide to you and your family, 4 nights and 5 days in the great smoky mountains, free of charge. >> oh, my! >> and they're also going to provide a smoky mountain adventure pass with their partners, amenity services, inc.. and when i heard your story we reached out to hanger clinic. and hanger clinic prosthetics heard that you couldn't afford the arm you need, so they're going to fit you for a top of the line bioelectronic arm that will lut fish with your -- let you fish with your grandson. [oh, my! ] >> this is steve, he is the head of the upper extremity program for the hanger clinic and he will work with you right now. to help get you set up for what you need.

i would like to thank the warren center for the humanities at vanderbilt university and the center for medicin medicine, hed society for sponsoring this session. and without further ado let's welcome kelly happe to talk about her book. [applause] >> thank you so much for being here today. it's an honor to be part of such a wonderful event, and thank you c-span for choosing this session to broadcast. i've been invited here today to talk about it recently published book, "the material gene." the book examines the science of genomics which i defined broadly as the investigation of the role of heredity and help from the perspective of the humanities. my interest in science began interesting enough when i was pursuing my masters degree in communication studies at baylor university. one of my professors at the time, dr. edwards, had a background in science and one of our seminars mentioned thomas kunz 1962 landmark book the structure of scientific revolutions. in the book, he argues that scientific change unfolds in anything but an orderly self-evident r-value freeway. rather, when paradigms

madam president, this weekend, vanderbilt plays tennessee in a football game in knoxville. let's say vanderbilt gets on the 1-yard line of tennessee and tennessee then says well, we're the home team, let's add 20 yards or whatever it takes to win the game, or let's say in the world series recently the red sox were behind st. louis in the ninth inning and the red sox said, well, we're the home team, let's add a couple of innings or whatever it takes to win the game. everyone would say, madam president, that that's cheating. everyone would say you're destroying the game of football or baseball. if a home team could change the rules at any time during the game or whatever it takes to win the game, what kind of game is it? that's what senator vandenberg said after world war ii and senator levin repeated to all of us, that the senate in which a majority can change the rules any time the majority wants to change the rules is a senate without any rules, yet we hear that's what the democratic majority may be seeking to do this week. they are unhappy, they say, that republicans have

willie vanderbilt, alva's husband was no exception. he was a spoiled playboy.idn't work for a living. he inherited this gigantic fortunes and he was panting and charming and had one affair after another openly in front of all the people in our social circle. meanwhile alva was required to keep her mouth shut and be the dutiful hostess. she looked from the outside like she was a woman in command of her world but in fact she was desperately unhappy and she would later describe the years leading up to the wedding is the worst of her life. they had begun to argue. she began to feel increasingly trapped in dissatisfied. she meets a man with whom she falls in love. but she can't have an affair with him. there's no way a woman of her situation and standing could possibly do what all the were doing. she finally an attempt to save her marriage turns to willian says can we take a family vacation? they go off to paris. it's a complete disaster. will he starts an affair not just with her best friend, but also with us high-class and runs around paris with these two women co

gators 4 and 4 coming into today's match-up against vanderbilt. their quarterback, tyler murphy tossed three interceptions on the day while surrender billed was living large. they would go on to wing 34-17, snapping a 22-losing streak. the last time they beat florida, ronald reagan was president. yours truly was a june aror in high school and the back street boys, actually boys, but happy times are here again. all right. time to put the sports cast, this baby on ice because the winter olympics 89 days away in sochi, that. the ice hockey team will look to capture their first gold metal since 1998. judy chu, a super star in the making. john henry smith has more. >> the games, pushing harder. we are still training smart but we are full-time as a team, which is so exciting. we training in boston, massachusetts area and every day, we come to the rink because we know we can become better as a team, working on systems as well as our conditioning. >> julie chu knows a thing or two about preparing for 0 lum pick competition. she has been a forward on the u

and so she doesn't have anything herself and she settles on willie vanderbilt, who was a charming handsome playboy. and she bears him and she sets out on a course to become the greatest in the history of consumption. if you've lived through the last 15 years, you realize what are compos mentis per the first thing she does is buy this island and she instructs the architects to build or something and shingles. and she buys this and build a french style chÂteau. and this is a couple of hundred million dollars in today's money. so to give you an idea what this is like him i will read to you an account of one of the many books that have been written about in the process. all of which are exercises so here we go. here is the description of her house. everything was everywhere. stamped leather, wallace, red velvet embroidered enriched with cut crystal and precious stones. and mother of pearl and brass. polished ebony and made with satin wood and grecian elizabethan renaissance french and victorian touches. and bursting with bronze stained glass and mosaics. and she decides she wants the biggest y

. >>> and on monday, joe will be at america's finest institution vanderbilt university in nashville,ennessee, langford auditorium. check out mojo.msnbc.com. are you listening to the smooth tunes of dierks bentley. >> willie, would they love me at vanderbilt? >> oh, they will love you. meacham says i could go interview them because they lock like intellectuals. >> that's a hard trick to pull off [ music playing ] [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we've always been on the forefront of innovation. when the world called for speed... ♪ ...when the world called for stealth... ♪ ...intelligence... endurance... affordability... adaptability... and when the world asked for the future. staying ahead in a constantly evolving world. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. maestr

, part of the yearlong program sponsored by the robert penn warren center for the humanities at vanderbilt titled diagnosis in context and i thank you manatees tennessee and vandenberg center for medicine helped and society in addition to the center for their financial support of today's session which is part of a larger series of events going on at the southern press world of books called taking our calls:promises and pitfalls of modern medicine. thank you for coming. today we have three presenters. we are a session, not a panel so each presenter will be presenting separately. ethan watters, kenneth macleish and allen frances will craft their 30 minute time, some will be reading from their texts. others will be snoozing and talking to us but i have to be ruthless and cut them off at their 30 minute time so that we can move onto another presenter. during our question and answer period if you would be so kind as to address your questions at the microphone that will be set up in the back so that we can be filled by c-span and here everyone's comments and questions so we will be inappropriate

. >> we want ad selection that started in the 18 hundreds with the vanderbilt carriage on display inof sotheby's. we have 1912 stots bearcat. you up through the '20s and '30s. this is one off-that is the ultimate supercar. we want to do the history of automobile as art form. 300 roadster, mercedes, not only do they perform phenomenally, they were a piece of sculpture when they came out in the '50s. adam: these cars, who are the people that i will will be bidding on these? >> right now we have 14 countries registered. and they're basically like world currency today you can put them in container, ship them anywhere in the world and be there 48 hours later. they're fascinating to drive. i have a 300 slr roadster myself. i put 8,000 miles. i use it as daily driver. >> you're supposed to drive cars. you don't want this stuff to dry up. you should brag, $125 in sales at the monterey auction. >> record for single auction. adam: within that auction was a world record for cars sold at auction in the united states, 1967 ferrari spider. >> it was a great story. and you know there is only 10 tha

vanderbilt institute. and aaron tolbert a emergency room nurse practitioner. welcome to each of you. erin, start with you. hormone and testerone replacement that seems at all the rage among a certain segment of the male population. is this the first time it is called into question in terms of safety? >> it isn't, jon. there have been some prior studies on this before, but they have been smaller. they haven't included that many participants. they have been shorter in duration. the reason this study is so alarming it was done over three years and involved almost nine thousand men. we're giving it a lot more credibility than prior studies because of its length and the number of people who are involved. >> yeah, a segment of this he size, i'm sorry, a stud different this size is pretty significant in terms of the number of veterans who are used here. >> it is. what we saw is that researchers compared almost 9,000 veterans with low testosterone levels. some of these men were taking testosterone replacement medicine and some were knot and what they found those that

he won a fellowship, he went to vanderbilt and won a fellowship to harvard's divinity school, and he had an interest in government and public policy. and i suggested to him that he ought to start at the bottom. and he is an ordained minister in harlem and a democratic district leader, and one day, one day he may sit in city hall. [applause] >> the best question of all, what advice would you have for -- [inaudible] tennis game -- [laughter] and this be applied to life? >> well, i have a lot of people here tonight with whom i've played tennis over the years. ronald t. gault has carried me, he's over yonder. he has carried me on many a time, and when i was clearly the least of the four people on the court, ron stayed with me anyhow. skip hartman would get up early in the morning to come out and try to teach me how to hit a forehand or a backhand. but i'll tell you, you do learn, seriously, you do learn something about a person by their behavior on a tennis court. you truly do. isn't that right, bobby? [laughter] >> okay. thank you very much, mr. mayor, and we're ready for the -- [applau

wonderful teacher, really young methodist minister, attended vanderbilt university in nashville. he worked for the fellowship of reconciliation. he had traveled to india and studied the way of gandhi. and dr. martin luther king, jr. would come to national during the spring of 1960, and he said the movie was the most disciplined. it was well organized, and the people there were accepting the way of nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. and it was there that many of the and people like diane nash, bernard lafayette, ct vivian, who is going to be on honored by the president in a few weeks with the medal of freedom. these young people, they not only went to jail and got arrested in nashville, but they went on the freedom ride and they became organizers all across the south. and today, many of these young people are still working for social change, for social justice. >> host: december 1, 1955, 50 miles from your house near troy, alabama. what happened in montgomery, alabama? what do you remember? >> guest: december 1, 1955, a young woman, rosa parks, was arrested for refu

patrick's cathedral on fifth avenue next to, or vanderbilt's house establishing where they were, right across this street from rockefeller center. they didn't know that was going to be there but it was a statement of that and the irish were also gifted at music, they send much of the tone of popular culture in the nineteenth do better dirksen senate office building 0th century from comedy to popular music. at the same time we got large numbers of germans. some stayed in big eastern cities primarily in new york. most headed to the midwest. someone to german cities like cincinnati, st. louis and milwaukee, the journalist joseph pulitzer after -- to endow the pulitzer prize got his start in journalism by working for one of the competing german language newspapers in st. louis. it was kind of cut through. the got elected to the state legislature when he wasn't quite 21 yen and shot a fellow legislator, didn't kill him but when you hear about the pulitzer prizes, keep in mind joseph pulitzer had a little bit of a wild and woolly life in german america. in st. louis many germans farmed in a

a major university in my state, vanderbilt university, this past year that university has lowered their work forest by approximately 1,300 people, will be the end -- will by the end of the year. very disconcerting for people who lost good-paying jobs. we haved hospitals in our region. we have layoffs in the medical area, also very distressing to me as a doctor and faculty member of the college of medicine at east tennessee state university, is that vanderbilt university is reducing their class size by 10% and reducing the number of by half. 's these are those who will research for disease cures in the futu. we know a vast number of our senior doctors are considering or have retired, as my own personal physician has done, due to the effects of the affordable care act. we'll discuss that in more detail and i think also we we need to discuss and focus on the new taxes and also on the effects on business and then lastly perhaps, it hasn't been discussed much recently, the effects on medicare, quite frankly work 700 -- with $700 billion being cut from medicare, there's one particular part, m

it's there with the vanderbilt estate and fdr's home. to go -- i encourage people who care about presidential history, don't just go to the fdr home and see franklin delano's grave, visit that huge insight to the personality there. inner city kids come there. poor people to come and talk. world leaders and presidents would visit her there, it's quite a spot. >> it was built in 1925 along the fall kill creek. and it was built because the voeltzs loved to picnic and they loved to picnic away from the main house. that's where they can get away and hang with their friends and a lot of the political cronies that mama did not like would come up for picnics. so eleanor remarks to fdr in the winter that this was -- how sad it was that it was their last time that they could picnic this year. and they picnicked with at that point nancy cook and marion dickerman, two women with whom eleanor had developed a close political working relationship with. both of whom were very involved in the democratic party. one of whom had run for office. so fdr offer