nobody would have a house as grand as the waldorf astoria and gradually they're shifting over entertainment to the great public venues and great public hotels and it comes down in 1930 to make way for the empire state building and reopens at park avenue and 50th street where it still is today. the stores themselves, b. altman, if you remember, some of you may remember b. altman, one of my favorite department stores. that goes up at fifth avenue and 34th street. steel frame but made to look like a renaissance palazzo and i think a better view would be gorhams that went up at 36th street. here it is still standing today, not with gorhams in it but fifth avenue and 35th street and a florentine renaissance palazzo adapted for a specialty jewelry shop and beautiful use of glass, the upper part of the building, two or three stories of vertical strip windows and the balconies give you a feeling juliet will come can out or a gucci will come out and say hello or goodbye to you and meanwhile the lower part of the building is 50 feet of glass. amazing glass shop fronts and huge ground floor, high ceil

if the nephew ever bothered her again she would wall up the access between the waldorf and the astoria, one of the first grand hotels in the 20th century. when you went inside there was a beautiful, i don't know what happened here. when you went inside there was a beautiful pathway, a concourse. we know it as peacock alley, and it kind of shows us the shift of entertainment from the houses of the wealthy of new york to public venues. back in the 19th century if you wanted to impress people you had them over to the house and did a grand spread. nobody would have a house as grand as the waldorf astoria and gradually they're shifting over entertainment to the great public venues and great public hotels and it comes down in 1930 to make way for the empire state building and reopens at park avenue and 50th street where it still is today. the stores themselves, b. altman, if you remember, some of you may remember b. altman, one of my favorite department stores. that goes up at fifth avenue and 34th street. steel frame but made to look like a renaissance palazzo and i think a better view woul

but several hours later in another speech at the waldorf-astoria, churchill stuck to his guns and gold defiantly i do not wish to withdraw or modify a single word we can benefit from such resolution, such strengthened such conviction today. despite this reaction, churchill's the five words affected u.s. policy immediately in addition to the anecdotes which we kindly share earlier that very day that churchill was the podium secretary of state james said strong warnings to moscow about russia meeting to leave iran at once as it had promised and asking to detail the chinese communists. a month before churchill went to foltin, truman and his team had george kennon's long telegram that shared the main points of churchill's's message. he wanted to spread communism and gain control and influence world wide. is it against democracy and the only active diplomacy backed by military strength was the way forward and the way to secure a lasting peace of which both kennon hoard and churchill spoke. the following year in 1947, truman announced the doctrine of containing russia in a speech at harvard.

it doesn't matter if i'm on top of the waldorf astoria or in a community garden on the lower south sidepart for me. >> my hopes for andrew is that he doesn't lose the spark that he has now, for beekeeping, and for helping other people in the world. >> i don't want to jinx anything, but you're looking at an inte a content man. i don't have ambitions to grow the business. i like the way things are. i have my bees in the city, i have my bees in the country, i sell a couple of days at the

. >> reporter: the actors held a pes conference at the waldorf astoria. >> in the movie he plays a foreign dictator who has to start all over after a kidnapper shaved off his bill. the dictator storms into theaters on may 16. former lost and party of five star matthew frog is in -- frock is in trouble with the law. the 45-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence early friday morning near his oregon home. he has a court date on june 17. jennifer lopez is a divorced single mom but is breaking baby news. the singer, actress and american idol judge says she would be open to adopting a baby. she and her ex mark anthony are the parents of 4-year-old twins and lopez says her latest role starring in "what to expect when you're expecting" opened her eyes to adoption. her new romantic comedy opens on may 18. country star jake owen is off the market. he married his girlfriend lace yu buchanan during a sunrise ceremony in florida on monday. they met on the set of one of his music videos and were only engaged for one month. that's your eye on entertainment, teresa garcia, c

from the waldorf-astoria, this is one hour 20 minutes. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. my name is paul gigot. i'm delighted to welcome you all to the inaugural event of the communal defense series. we're delighted you're all here. we hope to do this on occasion three or four times during the year. it is great to have you all here and to turn out for an interesting inaugural event amid the presidential election season. we have two experts here -- karl rove, the star of stage and screen. before that, the deputy white house chief of staff and architect who "of the two winning presidential winning campaigns" and some would say the architect of the revival of the republican party in texas. joe tricktrippy is a sometimes r on television. he is in a democratic strategist, one of the innovators in the use of the internet and social media in political campaigns. he was also the man who helped to bring howard dean that close to winning the democratic nomination. he was one shout away from the presidency. -- and help with jerry brown's campaign in california in 2010 as well as man

. >> reporter: this one was built by george bolt owner of several hotels and manager of the waldorf astoria both a tragic love story and thousand island dressing legend number one. so that's who? >> that is louise, george bolt's wife. >> reporter: this man runs the castle. this was built for her? >> yes. >> reporter: unfortunately in 1904, not long before the castle was finished, louise bolt died suddenly. >> at that time george bolt just ceased all construction. inconsoleable. he lost the love of his life. >> reporter: but so story goes a few years before her untimely de meese, louise and george took a fateful cruise aboard their yacht named, what else, the louise. >> the steward was preparing their lunch. he did not have a dressing at that time so he used whatever was available to develop a salad dressing. he served it to george and louise bolt. >> reporter: george bolt reportedly loved i and started serving it at the waldorf. it was the maitre' d, the renown oscar of the waldorf who is said to have made it world famous. and what of competing thousand island dressing origin stories? >> we

. >> reporter: actor sasha cohen held a press conference at the waldorf in astoria.s in new york promoting his newcombdy "the dictator." in the movie he plays a foreign dictator who has to start all over after kidnappers shave off his beard and abandon him in manhattan. it storms into theaters on may 16. former lost and party of five star matthew frock is in trouble with the law. the 45-year-old actor was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence early friday morning near his oregon home. he has a court date on june 17. jennifer lopez is a divorced single mom but she's breaking baby news. the singer, actress and american idol judge says she would be open to adopting a baby. she and her ex, mark anthony, are the parents of four-year- old twins and lopez says her latest role starring in "what to expect when you're expecting" opened her eyes to adoption. her new romantic comedy opens on may 18. country star jake owen is off the market. he married his model girlfriend lace yu buchanan during a sunrise ceremony in vero beach, florida on monday. they met on the se

from the waldorf-astoria in near city, this is an hour and 20 minutes. i am pleased to welcome you here. we are delighted you're here. we hope to do this on vacation -- on occasion three or four times during the year. it is great to have you here in this turn for an interesting inaugural events. we have two experts here, karl rove, the star of stage and screen. before that, a deputy white house chief of staff and architect of the revival of the republican party in texas. joe trippi is a sometime debater on television. he is a noted democratic strategist and innovators in the use of the internet in political campaigns. this also the man who helped to bring howard dean that close to winning the democratic nomination. he was one shot away from the -- shout away from the presidency. he has helped with the jerry brown's campaign in california in 2010 as well as many campaigns overseas. we are going to have a final -- fun conversation. i want to start. we will open up to questions. i want to start by saying if we -- seeing if we can get into the head of the ca