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while he was there his successor william howard taft, a man he admired greatly -- i know you are all aware that doris kearns goodwin just wrote a book largely on this -- taft gets the nod. t.r. wants him to be the successor. he is the hand-picked guide for t.r. and taft ends up firing gifford pinchot, the chief forrester, somebody who roosevelt helped build 150 national forests with. pinchot gets fired. roosevelt was very angry. he comes back and defies everybody and runs as a republican nominee, feels as if he's being cheated out of the republican party that is being owned by corporations and banks and he breaks in 1912 and runs the most successful third-party run in american history, the bull moose party. you've got to get back to the animal bit. the progressive party of 1912. at that point, he wants to destroy taft. if you're an enemy of t.r., it is not enough to win. you have to destroy your opponent. he went after taft and destroyed the modern republican party at that time. he came in second, allowing woodrow wilson to develop -- to come in first. something more important happene
while he was there his successor william howard taft, a man he admired greatly -- i know you are all aware that doris kearns goodwin just wrote a book largely on this -- taft gets the nod. t.r. wants him to be the successor. he is the hand-picked guide for t.r. and taft ends up firing gifford pinchot, the chief forrester, somebody who roosevelt helped build 150 national forests with. pinchot gets fired. roosevelt was very angry. he comes back and defies everybody and runs as a republican...
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you might like include scott berg, doris kearns goodwin on her book on theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, and journalism. and, margaret mcmillan. she describes the assassination of the archduke and you can watch these any time or search the video library. >> on the communicators more from the international consumer electronics show. >> if there is something you want to capture, you take it off of your wrist and it is simple. it will expand and be as easy as gesturing. it is completely autonomous. there is no remote required. there is a direction and it will stay close. if you throw it, it will go further away. it is completely autonomous. >> david cameron takes questions from the house of commons, followed by an election preview. after that, a senate hearing on treatment for alzheimer's. >> david cameron answered questions from members of the coalition ahead of the general election. cameron announced his next turn would be his last. this is 35 minutes. >> thank you mr. speaker. mr. speaker i know the whole house will wish to join me in offering our deepest condolences to the family and f
you might like include scott berg, doris kearns goodwin on her book on theodore roosevelt, william howard taft, and journalism. and, margaret mcmillan. she describes the assassination of the archduke and you can watch these any time or search the video library. >> on the communicators more from the international consumer electronics show. >> if there is something you want to capture, you take it off of your wrist and it is simple. it will expand and be as easy as gesturing. it is...
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you might like include scott berg, doris kearns goodwin on her book on theodore roosevelt, william howard taftand journalism. and, margaret mcmillan. she describes the assassination of the archduke and you can watch these any time or search the video library. >> on the communicators more from the international consumer electronics show.
you might like include scott berg, doris kearns goodwin on her book on theodore roosevelt, william howard taftand journalism. and, margaret mcmillan. she describes the assassination of the archduke and you can watch these any time or search the video library. >> on the communicators more from the international consumer electronics show.
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that year congress passed legislation on behalf of william howard taft for official white house automobiles>>> for nearly four decades businessman harold lemay amasses a collection of classic cars in tacoma, washington, that includes at least 3,000 vehicles. even he doesn't know the exact number. but there is one car he misses out on says his wife nancy. >> he always wishes he had gotten a tucker. >> preston tucker was an american inventor and entrepreneur who designed the tucker sedan in 1948. conceived as the car of the future. >> it was so ahead of its time. it's so sleek. it has awesome lines. >> but sales were doomed after tucker was investigated for stock fraud and only 51 cars were made before his chicago km folded. with or without a tucker, lemay's vintage car collection is named world largest in the 1998 guinness book of world records. it includes true classics such as a 1910 roadster, 1930 dusenberg and 1936 auburn. harold now in his late 70s starts to worry about what will become of his beloved autos when he's gone. charlie maxwell was a friend of his for 30 years. >> what did ha
that year congress passed legislation on behalf of william howard taft for official white house automobiles>>> for nearly four decades businessman harold lemay amasses a collection of classic cars in tacoma, washington, that includes at least 3,000 vehicles. even he doesn't know the exact number. but there is one car he misses out on says his wife nancy. >> he always wishes he had gotten a tucker. >> preston tucker was an american inventor and entrepreneur who designed the...
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there have been 18 presidents in her lifetime starting with william howard taft.today. take a look. >> reporter: elizabeth sullivan has lived in the same ft. worth texas house since 1942. >> it's so nice to meet you. thanks for inviting us to your home. >> i'm glad for you to come in. >> reporter: she has just celebrated her 104th birthday as the balloons paid clear. >> you had your drivers license until last january? >> i had been driving everywhere. i was going to church woman's club playing bridge. i was doing everything. >> she credits some of her longevity to a lone star favorite. >> you are drinking dr. pepper right now in. >> exactly right. this stuff is good. it's got sugar in it and three, two doctor versus told me if i drink it i will die, but they died first. >> okay. so that's proof it's good for you? >> yeah. >> so you think that this drink has helped you live to this age of 104? >> well ev dentally because everybody tells me it has too much sugar in it. since i have been drinking three a day for 50 or 66 years, i don't take any medication. they can't
there have been 18 presidents in her lifetime starting with william howard taft.today. take a look. >> reporter: elizabeth sullivan has lived in the same ft. worth texas house since 1942. >> it's so nice to meet you. thanks for inviting us to your home. >> i'm glad for you to come in. >> reporter: she has just celebrated her 104th birthday as the balloons paid clear. >> you had your drivers license until last january? >> i had been driving everywhere. i was...
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because although doctor teddy roosevelt and william howard taft. -- is your. it's a dominance of the south and west which we today take for granted at the expense of the old eastern establishing. you had the perfect clash set up and it was personified in one man, nelson rockefeller, who was the face of everything that the southern and western conservatives hated. that's not too strong a word. they felt that their party the old bob taft party, had been repeatedly jobbed out of the presidency of people like wendell willkie and thomas dewey and just dwight eisenhower and here's nelson rockefeller, knowing he doesn't have the votes, knowing it can only hurt goldwater in the fall. but nevertheless standing up to make a five minute speech on national tv denouncing political extremism, which he specifies as the american communist party, the ku klux klan and the john birch society, at the mention of which the place erupts. there are a lot of birchers there, there's a lot of would be birchers there, theological birchers if not necessarily formal members. and it's a mom
because although doctor teddy roosevelt and william howard taft. -- is your. it's a dominance of the south and west which we today take for granted at the expense of the old eastern establishing. you had the perfect clash set up and it was personified in one man, nelson rockefeller, who was the face of everything that the southern and western conservatives hated. that's not too strong a word. they felt that their party the old bob taft party, had been repeatedly jobbed out of the presidency of...