lbj was a feign of william jennings bryan. what happens i should have tight milled book the sons of william jennings bryan. when he came to washington in 1932 as an aide to congressman from texas, he would sneak into the senate chamber, just to hear hughie long, the louisiana king fish, and wrote it's a great idea to give every american family what today into woo be the eye with -- would be the equivalent of $90,000. share the wealth. all three of them has the idea that the least of, if we support the least of us, we will be a greater nation for it. i call it the commonwealth ideal and they believed very much in this ideal that if we can have an equitable society, we can have a great society. and when you look at the policy of truman, eisenhower and lbj, you'll see this reflected. don't want to turn this into a wonkish session, but let's take civil rights, for example. now, truman was not a natural at civil rights. as i said, he was steeped in confederate lore but the first president to address the naacp convention which he did

domination of markets by large firms, channeling antique figures such as louis brandeis and williams jennings bryan, claiming that monopolization is rampant and antitrust enforcement is the only cure. where are these people getting their statistics? guest: they are getting their statistics from the same place i am getting my statistics, but as the famous senator from new york can, weekend -- you disagree on your opinion, but we should be able to agree on the facts. what they are largely doing is cherry picking the facts. let's look at him, --income inequality. have firms and large firms no difference in income inequality. when you look at wage growth, that is pretty obvious, large companies pay 54% higher wages. the question of concentration, if we really think there has been monopolization of the economy, a few big firms dominating everything, profits should be going through the roof. right now, profit rates are lower for corporations than they were in the 1960's. small company profits have grown faster over the last 15 years. big company profits are lower than smoke of the profits. this is no evi

william jennings bryan. case, but longer the are there any baseball fans in being a 20 game winner used to be the standard of excellence. you may think how you become a 20 game loser? to beve to be good enough in regular rotation and bad enough to lose 20 games. that accounts for three-time losses. managed to be vice president of the united states. the first party system had been broken down. the second party system hadn't emerged. groups could nominate whoever they want. john calhoun realized he wasn't going to make the final. be thebe known he would number two spot. that into to leverage john quincyon and adams. he wanted to run again in 1828. 1824 is when jackson was the plurality winner of both the electorate and popular vote but did not win when they race went to the house of representatives. calhoun is thinking you never know, the president might die. he manages to finagle his way onto the ticket of both john quincy adams and andrew jackson. it's the only case in american history where a president of o