until he ran afoul of the civilian governor who was appointed over him, william howard taft. the other thing i'll point out is right down here, is arthur mcarthur's glasses. if you see pictures of him in his later life, he actually looks a lot like teddy roosevelt. these are the glasses he's wearing in his picture. 1898 is when the spanish american war starts and arthur mcarthur is on his way to command american troops in the campaign battle from manila after the naval victory, we spent a force and arthur mcarthur was one of the commanders. his son, douglas, 18 years old just graduated from the west texas military academy and has grown up idolizing his father. he wants to go with his dad as a volunteer aid. arthur mcarthur performed a very great service at this moment. because he turned to his son and said, son, you have an appointment to west point. i want you to take that appointment. because it's this -- this will not be the last war. this is my last war, but this will not be the last war we will see. your job is to prepare yourself for that war. and so douglas took his ad

schizophrenic time when even the former president and later chief justice of the supreme court, william howard taft, observed with regret that the strongest tendency of human nature was the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. i don't think we've changed very much, have we, since then? unlike others who had wealth and social station and used them surreptitiously to defy the unpopular law that they were often charged with enforcing, al capone ignored it and he told the truth about why he did so. he openly admitted that he sold illegal alcohol to the best people and he said he did it as a public service to supply a demand that was pretty popular for most americans and in the 1920's, it made him an american hero because he did publicly what most of them had to do in hiding. al capone defied the law and he got away with it. it's an accepted truism that cultural norms underwent seismic changes at the end of world war i. women got the vote. they shortened their skirts and went to work. jaded and disillusioned men refused to join the traditional work force and they took off for foreign cl

someday you might even see him on a supreme court like william howard taft had once been president andnt back to the court and let's not forget, barack obama got two women onto the u.s. supreme court and there's a legacy inherent with that. >> that's interesting to think that, you know, born in the 1960s, a white mother and black father. that's where the country is going now. we're going to see more of that and that may be his legacy as well. thank you, jen lmen. i appreciate it. >>> when we come right back, for many it seemed like the election of barack obama would change everything but after eight years in office, what is the president's legacy on race in america? afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. this is your daughter. and she just got this. ooh boy. but, you've got hum. so you can set this. and if she drives like this, you can tell her to drive more like this. because you'll get this.