warren harding was actually better on civil rights but, again, if you don't allow your only black orator of the day to say what's in his heart and on his mind about lincoln's unfinished work, about the need to live up to his aspirations for equal justice, then you're still operating in an area of hypocrisy as moten new in his gut. so, the nation was not yet ready to make strides, the jim crow era was still upon us. confederate monuments were still rising in the former confederacy. i think, looking back and in my own work on this memorial, i focused on the art, i focused on daniel chester french. because, as john said, i wrote a biography of french. but i think the memorial itself focused on an incomplete american story. yes, sectional reunion was crucial to making america strong in the post world war i era, leading up to the world war ii era. but making it strong for whom was a serious question that would remain unanswered until dr. king raised it, forcefully, again. standing under that statue, saying the negro is still not free. 100 years after the promise was made. it was exactly 100 y

i like warren harding i cispecially like calvin coolidg. i like ronald reagan and i like donaldan trump. stewart wasn't grover cleveland the father off little baby? [laughter] his opponents go after these guys on those grounds for grover cleveland was the last gold democrat. william jennings bryan we could through that another time. and see what we have time i think about one or two more calls john is in lakeland, florida. johnny ramos larry kudlow. john are you with us? >> this is john from connecticut. i want to know if you think john kennedy they senator from louisiana would be a good presidential candidate in 2024? >> thank you sir were going to leave it right there we are running short on time. >> he's a very smartoh man the e current center is a very, very smart man i will leave it there. what is he someone you know? when you were in the white house how often did you talk to senators or congressmen constantly? >> constantly. had a lot of deals with senator kennedy. i actually introduced to be spoke here at the big state party fundrais

the jazz age is about warren harding. i want to group them together because -- i'm going to give an opinion here. left-wing historians have destroyed these presidents. by the way, they tried to destroy grants, although i think it was you who told me grant is starting to move up the list again. host: on the c-span quadrennial list of presidential rankings, grant has been moving up steadily. guest: deservedly so. not only did he win the civil war on the battlefield, but as i said to you yesterday, grant was the guy who tried to reinforce construction. grant was the guy who took on the complex plan. grant ended the civil war income tax and restored the value of the dollar to stop the civil war inflation. liberal historians don't like grant, they don't like warren harding, they don't like calvin coolidge. they just do like ronald reagan, but so much material has come out, reagan and his own hand, they realize reagan was quite a policy intellectual. let's go to the gilded age. the gilded age -- i'm going to define it as kind o

warren harding was better on civil rights but if you do not allow your only black orator of the day to say what is in his heart and on his mind about lincoln's unfinished work, about the need to live up to his aspirations for equal justice, then you are still operating in an area of hypocrisy as mouton knew in his gut. so the nation was not yet ready to make strides, the jim crow era was upon us, confederate monuments were still rising in the former confederacy, and i think, looking back, and in my own work on this memorial, i focused on the arts, i focused on daniel because i wrote a biography of french and i think memorial itself focused on an incomplete american story. yes, sectional reunion was crucial to making america strong in the post-world war i era, leading up to the world war ii era. but making it strong for whom? that was a serious question that would remain unanswered until dr. king raised it forcefully again, standing under that statue saying the need go is still not free. 100 years after the promises were made and it was 100 years after the emancipation so it is a mixed

the jazz age book is about warren harding. i want to group them together and i'm going to give an opinion here . left-wing historians have destroyed these presidentsand by the way they tried to destroy grant although i think it was you who told me grant is starting to move up the list again . >> on the quadrennial list of presidential rankings , ulysses grant has been moving up steadily . >> deservedly so. not only did he win the civil war on the battlefield but as i said grant was the guy who tried to enforce reconstruction. grant was the guy who took on the plant and by the way, grant and the civil war in context restore the value of the dollar. liberal historians don't like grants, they don't like orangey harding or calvin coolidge. they used to not like ronald reagan but so much material has come out about reagan from his own hand. they realized reagan was going to win on policy so let's go to the gilded age. i'm going to define it as like 1870 to 1910 or something. give me some running room on that. i'm going to include u

who formally turned over the memorial to the then current president warren g harding? there was another famous person here that day by the name of robert lincoln president lincoln's son. who was present and had taken part in the development of the of the memorial, but who did not have a speaking role that day 100 years ago. but one person who did have a speaking role. a hundred years ago was dr. robert russa moton. dr. moten was an african-american director of the tuskegee institute. and he was a presidential advisor. dr. moten's words, you know were censored that day because we're in the midst of a segregation error. and the ceremony itself was segregated. we'll hear a lot more about dr. moten later today, but in regards to dr. moten, we have a couple of surprises. first off some of you may have noticed that some of the sections are kind of cordoned off. we have members of the tuskegee alumni association. here today and we have very special guests here today. through the work of john kelly at the washington post and one of our members who prefers to remain in the back

cox lost to warren harding. in any case, the two men, the two roosevelts had some similarities obviously. they also were quite different. particularly in their manner, their personalities. tr was a fiery, pugnacious sort, always ready for a fight, either physical or political, franklin on the other hand was more genteel, more sophisticated, always eager to solve problems diplomatically and amicably. now, as a young man, fdr seem to have everything, well, social possession and prestige, he was charming, handsome, witty, sophisticated. his most glaring fault, people sometimes felt, was that he was a bit overbearing, perhaps pompous, conceited we might say. and some thought him to be plain arrogant. after 1921, that changed dramatically on the account of all who knew him. becdause that was the year that roosevelt was stricken with polio, infantile paralysis, infantile, child's disease, infantile paralysis. roosevelt's disease was misdiagnosed for a long time. after he became ill, the doctors simply couldn't imagine

with the possible exception of warren harding thing and gerald ford, they all decided they wanted to be president at some point. i mean that and that intention is what links them together, but of course for these ladies up to this point now ladies, they don't have that. i mean there's this great moment where in in the showtime series where they're fighting and we saw a little bit. he says you you know what you were in for well in the scene she says no i didn't because nobody marries a guy. and says this guy's got to be president with the possible exception of hillary clinton. was what she thought you marry either a politician or a taylor or some guy in business or something and then you find yourself as you say have eleanor roosevelt saying this is my circumstance. so it's so they're an interesting group of people because nothing really intentionally links them except they're all find themselves in this position. i think you know, i think i'm sorry. i was just say the one thing that sort of connected all of them for us was this look at where women's were were women's history was at t

and if i may, i want to go back because i am reading a book about warren g harding much maligned u.s.resent in the 1920s harding has a vice president calvin coolidge and importantly his treasury secretary andrew mellon who was a great figure from pittsburgh aerial banker. they put together a huge reduction in marginal tax rates. the income tax amendment i believe is 1913 the 16th amendment voted out at 7% when woodrow wilson left office it was over 70%. we went into a recession after world war i. those guys brought tax rates down to 25% and launched a tremendous prosperity boom in the 1920s. i am going to go one more on this. that is another of my favorite figures is ulysses s grant. he was arguably america's greatest generals are one of the greatest generals they still critique some of his formations at west point. grant as president also much maligned and my friend and colleague wrote a pretty good book as a matter fact. grantbo did two things economics things in his administration he never gets credit this liberal historians will never give him credit. they fact is grant end of the

everyone wants to talk about and criticize your book for once it's written why did i begin in with warren harding's inauguration in the spring of 1921? well, i thought that it was important to show the institutions that american conservatives saw themselves defending. if conservatism is the defense of inherited institutions. american conservatives are in an unusual place the institutions we're meant to defend are the institutions created by the american founding the constitution the principles of the declaration of independence. a political theory of the federalists but in 1932 many people in the right believe that a revolution had taken place in the nature of the american experiment in the nature of the american government and that they the people on the right were defending the inherited institutions of the constitution against fdr and the new deal so i thought it was important to show where how the conservatives came to define themselves in opposition. to the new deal and prior to 1932 where progressiveism would settle? in the american political continuum was still very much up for grabs. teddy

hasn't surfaced that's going to, sort of, help us solve the mystery, i think the warren commission, because we worked very hard over the years, because our storytelling was deemed so controversial and polarizing to confront conspiracy a little bit more directly, and especially with the warren commission and staffers. everybody thought we were going to be some sort of tawdry, exploitive exhibit. and we've worked very hard to stay as far removed from that as possible. >> thank you very much. >> nicola, i had read that as at least as of 2018, still over 60% of americans believe there is a broader conspiracy at play than lee harvey oswald. just an interesting stat. >> well, it's a terribly complicated story and, you know, during the mourning period, the shock of jack ruby shooting lee harvey oswald, the assassin of the president, on live television, it was just one crisis after the other. and i don't think how young people understand that chaos and how we came through it. >> yeah. sir? >> louis, you mentioned that prior to hoover, most of these processions were unplanned. so i was wondering if you could shed some

on the death of his predecessor, warren g. harding, on the death of his 16 year old son, calvin junior, and on the death of his father, colonel coolidge. i wonder if any of you can speak to the tradition of wearing a black armband as a sign of mourning? when did it start, and when did it seem to go out of fashion? >> i know that i should be able to comment on this, but unfortunately i do not know the history of that. it is not really in style now, you don't see it now. unfortunately, that is a really good question i don't have the answer. >> sir? >> yes, thank you, sir. nicola, i had the privilege of marching in president kennedy's inaugural parade. and, that was my plebe year and my -- at the naval academy. and my first class year i had the privilege of leading the honor company that marched in his funeral procession. and the marine band, the u.s. naval -- national geographic magazine took a picture at the lincoln memorial. it was the marine band, west point, the naval academy, the air force academy, and finally the coast guard acade

coolidge wore a black armband as a symbol of mourning on the death of his predecessor warren g harding on the death of his 16 year old son calvin jr. and on the death of his father colonel coolidge, and i was wondering if any of you can comment on the tradition of wearing a black armband as a sign of mourning when did it start and when did it seem to go out of fashion? i know that i should be able to comment on this, but unfortunately, i don't know the history of that. but yeah, but it's something that isn't really in style now. you don't really see it now. but yeah, unfortunately that's a really good question and i don't have the answer. sir yes, thank you, sir. nikolai. i had the privilege of marching in president kennedy's. inaugural parade and i had to also that was my plea beer and my if the naval academy and my first class year, i had the privilege of leading the honor company. ah that marched in his funeral procession. and the marine band the us the naval the national geographic magazine took a picture at the lincoln memorial. it was the marine band west point. the naval academy

was one in 1948 that ranked grant next to last the only president who was considered worse was warren g harding at that time, but in the stock market of historic reputations grand shares have been soaring. i think not only because of you know our bodies, but there been a number the almost all the books that written the last 20 30 years have reevaluated grants presidency. so in the most recent poll, i think granted risen to number 21 among 46 presidents. so what's the change the corruption scand? in granted administration which were mostly confined to the last two years of his second term. i document them in the book they did they did happen but a few points to emphasize grant was not personally involved in them. he did not condone them and he prosecuted them quite vigorously. i think the most significant one was the the whiskey ring and he brought 350 indictments, you know against it but so, you know, the correction scandals were real. i think a lot of it was after the democrats regained control. of congress in 1874 in order to decent discreditary construction. they began to focus on the corrup

hard to come bye. you too roches, warren ukraine. fizzle and let's do business prices in turkey are out of control with inflation clocking in at a staggering $73.00 and a half percent. that's the highest level in over 20 years. food, housing and clothing were the main drivers. turkey has been suffering from steep price rises for years. as you can see here in just one year, inflation has really skyrocketed. it's been fuel by president wretched tie. a bad ones meddling in monetary policy is repeatedly blots the central bank from raising interest rates to time inflation, accelerating a decline of the lira. i asked economist l. gouge in how hard all this is hitting households and businesses. well, it took you in a deep crisis, you know, we have this huge number over 70 percent. turkey belongs to the worst performing countries in terms of inflation. on the other hand, we have this growth rate that has been announced 7 percent. but if you look on every day life ordinary trucks, people have massive problems to co with the situation. they can't basically finance their basic needs. and we know already the situa

warren's, the just gone. now keith has a long time, been so bad and the attacks now certain sunday rockets hit the city hard people there and key of coping. i think it's definitely a very painful reminder that anywhere in ukraine is vulnerable to russian attack. how far away you are from those front lines. the russian cruise missiles hit here. we understand were released were fired from the caspian sea. thousands of clumps away says busy no quarter of the country that is protected. there's also been talk that ukraine's air defenses are good enough in terms of protecting from planes ahead and that's why we haven't seen a russian planes flying above you. crane or most of you keep certainly against cruise missiles that's a much harder task and without western cruise, missile systems of a defense that can deal with this kind of results. that risk is going to stay. i think, you know, there is a certain sense for us. we think if they're not going to let themselves be distracted or frightened, that this kind of intimidation isn't going to work. you still see people out in the cafes on the streets trying to go about their

hard ignited states. in fact, as i understand at the u. s. is even warren, some of the countries like, you know, india, turkey, jip, should they get the grain and somehow get through the know their subject, the sanctions from the u. s. which is kind of indication that the u. s. isn't really serious about this. if they really wanted to, there would be a way that they could exempted and let this food get out to those countries that desperately needed. also, i think people got to realize it's not just the supply of these actual products that are causing the price to go up the, the constraint of the supply. but you got the international commodity futures, speculators who are driving up the price. you've got the shipping companies who are driving up the price and the ship insurance companies even before you have a problem with the shortage of the actual physical product. so, you know, what is the us doing about that cause of the inflation is this for crisis has been brewing for many years. more and more farmers are being squeezed out of cultivation, more money,

another reason that would be hard to discern except i dealt with this in the trump white house. elizabeth warrennt in 2019 she came out with a huge student loan forgiveness package diverting attention from the fact that she lied about being native american for years on applications and she was talking about this. and we dealt with this in the white house at the same time and ultimately concluded that it was unfair to people who had paid off the loans, gotten scholarships, or whose parents had paid outright and made other financial sacrifices or had never gone to college at all. but elizabeth warren knows hilly's damaged goods and kamala's not up for the job and biden's worried about taking him on as the first female president. so there's something there, too. >> sean: i think kellyanne's on to something. i can't name a single thing they've done successful, gas prices, inflation, the border, covid, afghanistan, you run up and down the list, they don't have a success that they can point to and so okay they're hoping they can run on roe v wade being overturned and an assault weapons ban i don't thi

there's another reason i think would be hard to discern except i dealt with this in the trumpmt white houseru. elizabeth warren when she was running for president in the summer of 2019, she came outid with this huge student loanen forgiveness package. she was diverting attention p away from the fact that she had lied about being native american for thirty six years on applications and she was talking about this and we dealtt with this in the white house ate the same time and ultimately concluded that it was unfair to the people who paid off the loans, gotten scholarships or whose parents haden paid outright and made other financial sacrifices, had never gone to college o. but elizabeth warren, she knows hillary's damaged goods. she knows she was not up to the job. i think biden's worried about on as the firstworried about female president. so there's something there to you know, i think on to something here right? on i can't name a single thing that they've done that's been successful. gasessful. prices, inflation, the border covidsu afghanistan. you run up and down the list. ss they don't have a success t tha

hard to quantify. the auction has raised $35 million over the last 22 years. bidding on this year's power of one auction with warrenn friday. cities are dealing with a shortage of fireworks just ahead of the fourth of july. the city of phoenix had to cancel 3/4 of july celebrations . fireworks shortage is part of the supply chain issues we've had involving chinese imports. fireworks dealers say there may be limited supplies that fireworks stands and at large shows. about having cruz, their pyrotechnic specialists, and these come from the company's having those companies be able to have those people like the fireworks, so to speak, and there's a shortage of those groups right now. marin county fair officials in san rafael tell us they have fireworks for each night of the fair from june 30th to july 4th still waiting to hear back from other cities about their independence day shows, including the big one in san francisco. well, no it near the portrait of former president barack obama and former first lady michelle obama are now at the young museum in san francisco. the obama portraits tour is organized by the smithso

george warren when he was accepted into the university they put him in the hallway looking into the class and the supreme court said they could do that anymore. they put a hard in a cluster and to segregate students.an just all of the granular injustices for granular. >> notably the years that this is happening. >> this was 1947 around 1945 through 51 or 52. it's a. b brown court. >> notably they are were people here that would be alive during that time in history.t that is the thing your the thing your book does this not allow us to forget. s yours is a bit like jack kerouac on the road but it has a good point to it. >> i'm sorry liked kerouac when i was a teenager. you observe and talk to people and you came away with your thoughts. i wondered intently how did you decide. there were tens of thousands in the country that could have gone. >> it was in 2017 watching the confederate statues come down might town of new orleans. watching the statues come down and thinking about growing up in a majority black city and thinking of what are the timplications?pa i had to go down jefferson davis parkway and my middle school was named after a leader of confederacy tha

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hard stop of 12:45. i think we're in good shape to achieve that. next in line will be senator warren and i'm going to run and vote and come back. if senator hassan could share in my absence that would be great. senator warren you are recognized. sen. warren: senator warren: today's hearing focuses on the treasury department's budget. i want to talk about money for the i.r.s. thanks a one-two punch from republican budget cuts and lobbying from corporations and rich people who don't want to be audited, the i.r.s. today is stuck with 1970's computers and staffing levels. unable to do its job. and unable to audit wealthy tax cheats. that underfunding also causes honest hardworking americans a lot of grief. according to the i.r.s., the average american spends about 13 hours and $240 every year just to file their taxes. 13 hours, $240. sure, some people have complicated taxes that take time. but for maybe about half of americans, taxes could be as easy as looking at a form, the i.r.s. has already filled out, showing your w-2 and 1099 income, then using the standard deduction and common tax