where spencer tracy is a lawyer and browbeating william jennings on the stand who is reduced to tears. that never happened in the trial. william jennings bryan won the trial and the defense he gave was very strong popular image that has come out of that has been one that has persisted in demonizing christians. as i follow the history through a couple of the major attacks going on today and i want to emphasize this has been a skillful campaign that the west has waged to be the primary attack going on right now today is on the whole agenda of marriage being between a man and woman and it began with public relations campaign that the left began running to change the entire notion of the relationship between two people, homosexuals, lgbt agenda was advanced realizing that in the 1950's if someone was portrayed as a homosexual it was terrible. it was a stigma. but in presenting television shows, presenting homosexuals and a positive light, it got to the point where in terms of libertarianism people say if it doesn't hurt me that to men or to women are married why should i care? one of the fundamental distinctions between a libertarian as that for

you go back to mckinley running for president and william jennings bryan had the same platform back thenwhenever you have low approval ratings of politicians, they go after big business or banks. and that is why they are going after big business. it is a very complicated issue and money stored in another one. there is a big difference between non-and these companies like russia has in cyprus. neil: and who would know better than john. >> that is right. we want you get a sense of this? this shows all of this. >> and collective stupidity because we have high taxes around the world elsewhere. this means that someone else is making these tax was appealing and it is generating a lot of revenue and they are attracting them somewhere else. so it's stupid. money goes where it's treated best. by the way, the u.s. has a corporate tax rate of 49.2%. higher than the european average already. we already out taxing them. an now we are saying come you guys should really tax more than the driveways many jobs as we possibly can. >> maybe there is a little bit of this. we have all of these unfunded liabil

williams jennings bryan was the first. left because he did not let the way that wilson responded to the lusitania and was starting to get too bellicose and did not like that. in and realized she was a notetaker for wilson. policy.y forged the lansing went over to paris. lansing thought he could have negotiated and he ended up doing almost nothing. whenever he offered advice, wilson was not interested. lansing could not wait to get out and it was his sense of duty they kept him in as long as he did. >> you talk about the stroke in public colorado. when was that? >> lynn woolsey came back from paris, there is a peace treaty that they had spent six months negotiating and everything was talking and rage go. -- ready to go. the one thing that wilson had not considered was the fact that peace treaties had to be ratified by the senate. he had not considered it to the extent where the politics would come into play. he knew all about it and he knew the senate had to ratify it. he did not realize that what that meant was that in the

and indeed in 1912, william jennings bryan having been littered with democratic party, having lost three national elections, the party was now in search of a new phase, a new image. who better than this very progressive, very erudite, very proper squeaky clean governor of new jersey. and so, remember the most meteoric rise in american history? october of 1910, woodrow wilson gets president of a little college. november of 1912, woodrow wilson is elected president of the united states. the 28th president. now this is where the roller coaster ride really begins. woodrow wilson comes in within the first two years. and let's stretch it and let's call it his first term event. but within the first two years, woodrow wilson passed the most progressive agenda of the country had ever seen full text period that said. he immediately redid the economy of this country by lowering tariffs in a big way. this doesn't sound very every last today, but it was in favor of a graduated income tax, which he thought was a fair way to go, which he thought was a way that would again level the playing field for mo

my colleague has this william jennings bryan and think about increasing inflation about the poor man been nailed to a cross or something and that is because he is crazy. [laughter] he is a nice guy but he is crazy. >> you talk about the importance of intellectual property rights in general and what about the intellectual property rights because that is increasingly impossible. what doy predict -- >> as somebody that writes for a living and occasionally i will cease that show up on the internet that i have done, you do think give me something for that. intellectual property rights certainly should be important that it's going to take somebody a lot smarter than me to figure this out. one of the problems with the internet is how the hell do you make money off the thing? a lot of people right now with stock holdings and will companies in silicon valley just beginning to think about we the minute they have a wonderful idea and marvelous technology and programming. that is a problem probably in the days of gutenberg they were saying the same thing. if somebody doesn't have to write this o

middle class, really began, i would argue, in actually 1896, which is william mckinley against william jennings bryan, and public kinly's campaign manager is mark hannah, who is karl rove's role model. not a joke. i actually discussed it with karl rove. hannah went around to all the biggest corporations in america at the time and got huge donations and crushed brian with money, and hannah was famous for saying there are two things that are important in politics. money, and i can't remember what the second one is. so this election, 116 years later, was partly about that. you had a fellow on the republican side who gave $100 million, one person. and i spend quite a bit of time in the book explaining how the obama campaign used digital technology to win. i think everybody knows they did, but i wanted to explain how they did. but to me one of the most interesting figures after they were able to increase their online fundraising tenfold over a three-or four-month period, it turn out that the average obama donation was $66, and the average romney donation, while spencer's wit, romney's treasurer, wasn't ex

he had said some things about williams jennings bryan to make trouble. she saw a chance. she brought them together and they had off -- hit it off. brian and wilson had a good relationship until the unfortunate stuff in world war i. tacticianvery shrewd and a good facilitator. not out in front. not out in public. she did not like that role. challenged roosevelt his own party with the bull moose party. that's what the republicans and put woodrow wilson in the white house. encapsulate his political philosophy, what was it? >> he called himself a progressive democrat. he believed in a strong government. that made itrnment possible for people to do things for themselves. do not want a government that will take care of me. to make surent other people take their hands off me so i can take care of myself. it is updated liberalism. happiness, that is the great contract with theodore roosevelt. get is a debate of political philosophies between two men. but lee is calling from durango, colorado. about ellenquestion wilson. she did such a wonderful thing for the city of washington, d

william jennings bryan withdrew it because he did not want to embarrass the first lady. >> she was the only first lady who attended the opposite political party. >> she was the first to donate her inaugural gown to the smithsonian and started that practice. she brought automobiles to the white house. she was the first first lady to publish her memoirs and the first to be buried at arlington cemetery. i want to take a second to tell you about our book. we are doing this in partnership with the white house historical association, and they published a book that contains a biography as each of the first ladies. you're making it available at cost, which is $12 95 on our website. aboutis a way to read each of these ladies. that's a resource available to you. video about the inaugural gowns. let's watch that. >> the smithsonian has very few pieces that the long two helen taft, but the peace we have -- that belonged to helen taft, but the peace we do have is one of the most significant. first.aft was a woman of helen taft was a woman of and thisons, symbolizes all of that. this is her inaugura

she had a hand in trying to get woodrow to patch up relations with williams jennings bryan to head three times in the democratic nominee. he was kind of the leader of the and he was very keen on helping woodrow get the nomination. >> she saw an opportunity. wilson had come from a different wing of the party. he had said some things about bryant that some of his enemies had publicized to try to make for it she saw a chance to mend fences. she brought them together and they hit it off very well. brian and wilson had a good relationship down to some things in world war i. she is playing the same kind of role that she played in his academic career heard a very shrewd tactician, a very good facilitator. not out in front or in public, she didn't particularly like that role, either. but she was awfully shrewd. >> theodore roosevelt's challenge to his own party by forming the bull moose party that split the republicans and helped bring woodrow wilson into the white house. hisou have to capitalize political philosophy, what would you say it is? he called himself a protective -- a progressive demo

this note to germany more strongly, or you should put this note to the secretary of state william jennings bryan more strongly, and he liked her to be fiery. that.ouraged it was funny because a lot of people thought she influenced tahim. she really did not prove -- approve of them and suffer rich suffrage. >> how difficult was it for him to make a decision to bring the ..s. into world war i >> very. the sinking of the lusitania is a great wake-up call as to how we might be involved in the war. asreally is as comparable pearl harbor or 9/11. then it took two years to try to get the germans not to sink ships and kill people on the seas. the election of 1916 was during a lull in foreign affairs, and this notion that he kept us out great pride, he kept us out of war with mexico, had receded.hreat it was a very difficult struggle. he burden -- unburdened himself to a newspaper editor, and he predict did all of the terrible -- predicted all the terrible consequences that would happen if we went into the war. sheldonould you answer cooper, who asks which wife gave more political clout to woodrow? >> i

she had a hand in trying to get woodrow to patch up relations with williams jennings bryan to head three times in the democratic nominee. he was kind of the leader of the democratic party and he was very keen on helping woodrow get the nomination. >> she saw an opportunity. wilson had come from a different wing of the party. he had said some things about bryant that some of his enemies had publicized to try to make trouble for it she saw a chance to mend fences. she brought them together and they hit it off very well. brian and wilson had a good relationship down to some things in world war i. she is playing the same kind of role that she played in his academic career heard a very shrewd tactician, a very good facilitator. not out in front or in public, she didn't particularly like that role, either. but she was awfully shrewd. >> theodore roosevelt's challenge to his own party by forming the bull moose party that split the republicans and helped bring woodrow wilson into the white house. if you have to capitalize his political philosophy, what would you say it is? he called himself a pr

everybody in the country is turning to new jersey and they think who is this guy in 1912 william jennings bryan as a leader of the democratic party losing three national elections it was now in search of a new face, a new image into better than this progressive very proper squeaky clean governor of new jersey? three river the most meteoric rise? october 1910 he is president of a college november 1912 woodrow wilson is elected president of united states. the 20th president. this is where the roller-coaster ride really begins he comes in with the the first two years was calling his first term even but even then he passed for the most progressive agenda the country had ever seen. with the economy of this country but it was in favor of it was a fair way to go to a level the playing field for most of america. then to get past the federal reserve system. of the eight dash hour workday with workmen's compensation the first issue on the supreme court every week, every month there was a new idea that wilson would say were some new ideal to be passed something he would present. for what wilson did in his