if you believe in those things, you are going to like warren harding. you liked fdr, you are not going to like harding. reading little things in grad school, the idea for this book i started in grad school. i went back and found my original notes when i had sketched the book. i wanted to dig into the record. a few people have written good things about him, and i wanted to dig deeper. look at primary sources. what did he say in his letters, his speeches. what did people who knew him say about him. it is far different then what others have said about him. susan: harding's papers do not become available until 1964. why did it take so long for them to become public? did you use them, what did you find? ryan: luckily, there are historians that went through his letters. he died in 1923, his wife found a lot of them. we have some important ones. a lot of his political letters. that is what i was interested in mainly. not his personal life, this is not a full biography. i talk about his background. i was able to use that book and go through his letters. they we

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

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 of

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the reason i mention warren harding is that he took an enormous trip, probably one of the longest trips a sitting president took to alaska. to complete the last major railroad constructed in the 50 united states. the alaska railroad. but before that he also, and this is a picture, by the way, of a locomotive that was decked out to pull that train. here is a picture of him, of the locomotive and alaska as this train wound towards the location of the last -- before we get to that, harding enjoyed something that president teddy roosevelt and even president wilson did not, that is amplification of his voice. by this time in the late teens and early 19 twenties, the at&t actually installed a voice application system, that's what they called it in the presidential car. and they were able to use it to broadcast their voice. we'll see pictures of what that looked like here in a minute. but first, let's talk a little bit, bob, about the presidential trip to alaska. heirnow, harding didn't campaign much by train, called it a front porch campaign where people came to him rather than them going to

they do not like warren gco harding for they do not like calvin coolidge. that used to not like ronaldbu reagan but materials come out ragged and his own hand. they realize ragged was positive in electoral period let's go to the gilded age. gilded age i'm going to define it 70 can be some running room on that. i'm going to include u.s. grant into this grant was president 6d industrial revolution the gilded age of phenomenal. of inventions railroads across the country. airplanes, oil, the applications of oil. i brought a list because gosh i was hoping we could go into the stuff. telegraph rail lines telephones the red cross i mean come on they are bad mouthing everything about the gilded- age. made them all out. they completely miss the big picture this is a. unheralded prosperity for the united states. america became the greatest country in the world economic from the so-called gilded age. i was not industrial revolution might saintly wife is a painter, artist painting of the hudson river and painters coming through. tremendous stuff. steven crane, elizabet

when the nation's economy fell into a severe recession in 1921, he warren harding to convene presidents conference on unemployed. with hoover as chairman and driving force this highly publicized conference laid, the intellectual foundation for his presidential response to the great depression a decade later, the conference popularized the idea that government should not sit still during an economic slump. to the contrary it should act to mitigate downturns, especially countercyclical expenditures on public works. hoover scoffed at the classical economic teaching that business cycle fluctuations inevitable. instead, he believed the national economy could be managed by cooperation and what he called coordination between the federal government and the private. at the heart of his political philosophy was a vision of a vast informal partnership. a federal government equipped with scientific data about conditions and a private economy led by enlightened trade, associate nations. hoover's approach has come to be known as associational ism. to him it was a proven progressive for non-coercive,

what why did i begin with warren harding's inauguration spring of 1921? thought it was important to show the institutions that american conservatism saw themselves defendant. conservatism is the defense of inherited institutions. american conservatives are in an unusual place. the institutions we are meant to defend are the institutions created by american founding. the constitution, the principles of the declaration of independence. the political theory of the federalists. but in 1932, many people on the right believed a revolution had taken place in the nature of the american experiment. in the nature of the american government. and they, the people on the right were defending the institution of the constitution against fdr and the new deal. i thought it was important to show how the conservatives came to define themselves in opposition to the new deal. and prior to 1932, where progressivism would settle in the american political continuum was very much up for grabs. teddy roosevelt aligned with the progressives. of course he was a very successful repub

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 a lot more about dr. te of our members who prefers to remain in the backseat anonymous. we're able to locate four members of dr. robert russell motins ancestors or descendants. i'm sorry his descendants. so i want to i want to have them stand up and and i'll introduce them. and they should be over here dr. so we have robert d. moton. who is the great grandson? of dr. robert armed there was some melton we have his wife jennifer hardy moten. and their daughter parker mountain now robert is

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

had been assistant secretary of the navy in warren g harding's cabinet and the harding had died, but the teapot dome scandal involving oil leases in the navy department had broken and ted junior was really in no way involved. but eleanor who was a loyal democrat by that point toward the state of new york in a campaign car rigged up with a paper mache teapot. you know implying something about about ted junior. well since the rose since theodore's children had grown up with with eleanor the reaction of allison ted and other members of that branch of the family was how could she do that to us? but maybe this is just my personal opinion, but maybe there was an undercurrent this idea that oh, well, you know my father is up on mount rushmore and yours was a falling down drunk, you know, maybe this was this was eleanor's way of asserting a little a little something. um, no, addie buy said, oh here we are. right. eleanor is more bohemian friends were not to her aunts liking either. quote, i just hate to see eleanor. let herself look as she does by wrote to her niece. karin robinson alsop. qu

i like grover cleveland and i like us grant and i like warren harding and i especially like calvin coolidge. and i like donald trump. >> was grover cleveland the father of little babies was ? >> guest: 'sopponents go after these guys and grover cleveland was last gold democrat. anyway, william jenningsbryan . >>. >> host: we got time for one or two more calls. john, you're on with larry kudlow. you with us? let's try john. >> caller: this is john from connecticut. i don't know where you think the senator from louisiana would be agood presidential candidate in 2024 . >> are going to leave it right there. >> guest: john kerry is a very smart man. >> host: when you were in the white house how often did you talk with the congressman, constantly? >> guest: constantly. i had a lot of dealings with senator kennedy . we spoke here at a state fundraiser. i mentioned on the show recently he's a smart guy. >> host: frank from florida, you're on the air. >> caller: how are you mister kudlow? peter, you have to have one question of mister kudlow. i somewhat agree with some of his positions but some i do

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 have 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

another person who followed this practice was the president of the united states warren g harding. he had been a senator so he just moved his catch of liquor from his house to the white house, and it was widely suspected that when he ran out of it the justice department started supplying him with stuff that had been confiscated. he didn't serve alcohol at formal white house events, but his wife was the bar maid at his several times a week poker parties where they would drink themselves silly. of course, the fdr was lost the race for vice president during that election that elected harding and coolidge. he got polio the next year. so one a couple of winners he spent on his houseboat tooling around the caribbean where they would enjoy grog every night. now what was in the grog? i don't know, but i think probably it may be another name for a martini and then also at the little white house where he was said to have had a bootlegger who supplied him with moonshine. so the government was making efforts to control this out of control criminal activity, but they were so outmanned and so ou

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

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warren g. hardingthe president right after world war i, there is a good book, and in it, he resurrects warren g. harding who has always been vilified as one of our worst presidents, just as grant was. then we really look into some of the things he did, you realize he did some things wrong and he was held accountable, but they magnified all the problems, all the bad things he did, scandal that he was not aware of at the time and it was not as big a deal as the media made it out to be. ever since then, historians have demonized him. but what he did, he came to power right after world war i when we had a huge depression, economic depression. nobody had jobs and you had inflation, all kinds of things going on. and it was just horrible for the american people who were suffering. and you had a lot of soldiers coming back from world war i who did not have jobs coming home. much the same situations. and he just cut taxes, cut government spending despite differences we may have in terms of ideology, there is co

warren g. harding, the president right after world war i, there is a good book, and in it, he resurrects warren g. harding who has always been vilified as one of our worst presidents, just as grant was. then we really look into some of the things he did, you realize he did some things wrong and he was held accountable, but they magnified all the problems, all the bad things he did, scandal that he was not aware of at the time and it was not as big a deal as the media made it out to be. ever since then, historians have demonized him. but what he did, he came to power right after world war i when we had a huge depression, economic depression. nobody had jobs and you had inflation, all kinds of things going on. and it was just horrible for the american people who were suffering. and you had a lot of soldiers coming back from world war i who did not have jobs coming home. much the same situations. and he just cut taxes, cut government spending despite differences we may have in terms of ideology, there is

the only president who was considered worse was warren g. harding at that time.but in the stock market, historic reputation, the shares have been storing because there have been a number of these -- and the last 2030 years have reevaluate grant's presidency. the most recent poll, i think grant had risen to number 21, number 46, and so it is a change? and the corruption scandals and grants administration, those were mostly confined to the last two years of his second term. i document them in the book, they did happen, but there are 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 -- and he brought three injured 50 indictments. but, the corruption scandals a real. i think a lot of it was after the democrats regain control of congress in 1874 in order to discredit reconstruction, they began to focus on the corruption scandals as a way of discrediting grant. i think that is kind of the minor story of the administration. the major one is, as you

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

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i guess you're talking about the father that confronted elizabeth warren saying paid all the bills, work hard euphemism. if liberals were honest they'd just call it what it is a transfer of debt to those who didn't undertake it. it's not the first time the trump tax cuts benefitted people who supported trump, but it sure does align with the democratic base, those who will be beneficiaries of it, which i think is your point. here's another social media reaction. yes, it's fair to the millions with pressing student loans, maybe unfair to those who struggle to pay off their loans, right. life isn't fair, some of us luck out and some don't. garth, if it all evens out in the end, if we feel like i wasn't a beneficiary this time but i've been one in other circumstances. do i have time for one more? i do not, , ununfortunately. okay. i'll see you next week. a monster was attacking but the team remained calm. because with miro, they could problem solve together, and find the answer that was right under their nose. or... his nose. (fisher investments) it's easy to think that all money managers are pre

hard. disney is classic because you've got parks, right, which is warren buffett's see's candy and you cant any time you want and then you've got streaming that people just don't get. >> let me just jump in, is there a chance though, lee that their content will go out of style now you could say maybe for political and cultural reasons and maybe there's more competition and maybe, there's other children's content, as well what makes you so sure that this will be a durable franchise for the decades to come? >> because babies are everywhere every year i see more babies. >> you're preaching to the choir. >> right >> i don't know if they're as everywhere as they used to be. >> put it this way, when you're a parent and you're sitting there with young kids and you want to sit on the couch and turn something on and close your eyes and take a nap and hear the sound of little giggles, grandparents and parents are going to choose content that they're familiar with and that they trust and they trust the disney brand, right? they trust it because it's family oriented. everybody is familiar with it and

warren, that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key if well earlier we spoke to dw mathias billing our in keith and asked him if the war is now expanding into crimea. well, it's hard to say that it expanded because crimea was part of this war as we've just heard it launch. but for the invasion, it's a highly militarized territory where russia has a lot of technology and it's also home to the black sea fleet and the headquarters of the black sea fleet. they have been attacked by ukraine, presumably by ukraine. it also didn't own this for just a few days ago. so of course, this is part of the war, but what is a clear is that the people in crimea, the tourists who travel to crimea from russia, they did not expect this. and we are now seeing pictures of long queues of people trying to leave the territory. it was probably falsely perceived as being kind of off the off site of the war. but it is of course, part of this whole military game mathias putting a reporting there. right, well let's take a look now and more stories related to the ukraine war. russian strikes in the southern ukrainian region of separation have killed at least 13 people and left thousands without

warren thinks it's great. >> i am so happy to see what has happened. this is about america investing in people who work hardwho play by the rules and who just need a government on their side and joe biden has done what joe biden does best. he has delivered for working families. >> brian: she is scary. and while progressives are in the white house are so laserred in on student loan debt completely ignoring very real problems that you and i are grappling with. for example our border. still seeing record high illegal encounters in july 160,000 apprehensions than the same time two years ago. this is supposed to be the quiet time too hot to come here. border patrol is catching more and more terrorists, pedophiles, murders on the regular. now, over in arizona, $4.3 million word of fentanyl seized in one bust on wednesday. that's enough to kill 42 million americans, no joke, jack. running out of room because of opioid deaths oftentimes you use it once and you are dead. thanks, china. still delusional dems think they got the republicans right where they want them. >> republicans should be very, very, very scared th

hard for the president to arrive at the right number. if you remember during 2020 democratic primary, you had biden's -- elizabeth warren and bernie sandersout with much -- most followers, and sanders was calling to erase all of the, debt, all 1.7 trillion dollars outstanding. and so as the months went on, biden stuck to his campaign promise, he had come out in support of $10,000. he had been pushed by warren and sanders to come out with [inaudible] plans, but he really seem stuck on the number $10,000. at the same time, he was under intense pressure from key players, like senator chuck schumer, and the naacp, to go further than the $10,000. -- but i have heard this criticism and i will go further by expanding the relief to 25 -- [inaudible] pell grants are for families that usually earn under $60,000 a year, undergraduate students. so, for that population, a double the relief, $20,000. >> andre, there are people literally with endemic every demographic, who have student loans, including some people who are much older than you think you would have student loans. but there is a disproportionate impact on people of color and women. women of

warren buffett says. these things are in the short term popular to contests. when you're talking about ipo's, the weighing machine is not willing to give multiples a lot of people want. it is hard predict, to be frank, when this will happen because it is sort of separate from the day-to-day of the startups which i know really well. i really hope a lot of the macro situation resolves itself. i think there are a lot of indicators that say inflation is over. i'm not exactly the right person to pay attention to there. we can tell our founders to be thoughtful about your cash, build something of true value, and don't build something for just the next round or to impress the next vc. it is really about impressing your customer, your user, high retention, high gross margin, and great customer acquisition. you know, the fundamentals. that is what we try to teach day in and day out. katie: it is great to get some time with you. that is garry tan, initialized capital founder and partner and soon to be y combinator's president and ceo. thank you so much. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology." tuesday, we will speak to the course era ceo to discuss growth in education tec

hard for public safety. if the governor thinks he could do a better job, then he should run for state attorney, not president. and because that is hillsborough county state attorney andrew warren. governor desantis signed a bill into law in april that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. the measure is facing several legal challenges. the fbi has arrested former puerto rico governor wanda vÁzquez over her alleged involvement in a bribery scheme to finance her 2020 gubernatorial campaign. vÁzquez is accused of accepting bribes in 2019 and 2020 while she was governor from several people, including julio martin herrera velutini, a banker who was under investigation by the agency that oversees puerto rico's financial institutions. in exchange for the donations, vÁzquez reportedly demanded the resignation of the agency's director and later appointed a new one, a former consultant of herrera's bank. vÁuez, herra, and former fbi agt also fe wire fud anconspira charg and up 20 yea in pris if convted onll cnts. in austin, texas, a jury has ordered far-right conspiracy theorist and infowars host alex jones to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages to the parents of jesse l

hard for public safety and justice. the governor thinks he can do a better job. then he should run for state tierney, not president. >> that was tempest top prosecutor, andrew warrensuspending warren, after warren and prosecutors across the country signed a pledge saying they would not pursue criminal cases against those seeking abortion care or gender transition treatments for minors. according to desantis, this was a violation of warren's duty. >> when you flagrantly violate your oath of office, when you make yourself above the law, you have violated your duty, you have neglected your duty, and you are displaying a lack of confidence to be able to reform those duties. >> but as axios points out, when suspending warren, desantis didn't point to any specific wrongdoing or failure to prosecute, just policy interpretation. >> it is also worth noting that no cases have been brought to warren's office on either abortions or gender transition care. on top of that, florida has not enacted laws criminalizing gender transition treatments for minors. and yet, here we are. andrew warren joins me now, he was a democrat elected to his position by florida voters twice. and you