and another fellow, william randolph hearst. specifically what can you say about that relationship, specifically the gubernatorial races and the 1922 presidential nomination process? >> let's start with beverly gage. >> hearst is one of the towering figures of this moment and he turns into one of smith's great critics and he's sort of the man around which smith learns how to deal with the press in many ways. i know you, we were talking earlier and you said you had been writing about this in great detail, the milk issue and hearst's attacks on smith. >> oh, god. yeah. great question. glad dave brought this up because william randolph hearst was probably one of the most controversial government figures or quasi-government figures in new york history. he was a two-term congressman from new york. he basically bought the seat. he tried to get the nomination in 1904 for president of the united states. he lost that. he runs for governor in 1906 against charles evans hughes and loses. he runs for new york city mayor and loses. many by h

you see these editorial cartoons from william randolph hearst, with the irish nationalists and all those. and at the end of the day, the german-americans vote goes to wilson. he does not elucidate the campaign themes well. he is opposed to the tariff. it is not a popular position for the republicans that year. there are labor issues. there are labor issues that are very important. there are two things that cross him up. even though as governor of new york, he has an admirable record. he establishes cases, that entire system, the first in the country. there's also labor regulations put in place for the first time. he is really a champion of labor. but there there are two things that happened. the infamous california trip, which we will get into later, there are two things that happen. the one thing that is never talked about, he blunders into san francisco, and the chamber of commerce was trying to break the unions, particularly in the restaurants, wanted them to be open shop. in other words, you do not have to join the union to work there. they wanted the restaurants to offer up open sho

california and they called it the blockade and they got the thinks of the "los angeles times" and william randolph hearstos angeles is about as far west as you can get. what was the l.a.p.d. doing sitting up in the legal roadblock hundreds of miles to the east stopping other americans from coming into the state of california as the wood for a foreign country and where does the jurisdiction in the? longline lit? i don't get it. anyway, it was unconstitutional. they didn't care about it. what they were doing is stopping and turning back anybody who looked unemployable. that's the word they used. now how could you prove that you were not in unemployable? you would reach into your pocket is a pullout $50 if you could show $50 of the old to the border guard you might make it into the golden state of california where you would be sure to get a less than warm welcome anyway. so, woody took a look at the situation and he said kind of a musical postcard to the folks back home pulling up stakes coming back to california maybe they'd better think again. ♪ now lots of folks back east say they are leaving home most e

california and they called it the blockade and they got the thinks of the "los angeles times" and william randolph hearstar west as you can get. what was the l.a.p.d. doing sitting up in the legal roadblock hundreds of miles to the east stopping other americans from coming into the state of california as the wood for a foreign country and where does the jurisdiction in the? longline lit? i don't get it. anyway, it was unconstitutional. they didn't care about it. what they were doing is stopping and turning back anybody who looked unemployable. that's the word they used. now how could you prove that you were not in unemployable? you would reach into your pocket is a pullout $50 if you could show $50 of the old to the border guard you might make it into the golden state of california where you would be sure to get a less than warm welcome anyway. so, woody took a look at the situation and he said kind of a musical postcard to the folks back home pulling up stakes coming back to california maybe they'd better think again. ♪ now lots of folks back east say they are leaving home most every day they're beating

california and they called it the blockade and they got the thinks of the "los angeles times" and william randolph hearsteles is about as far west as you can get. what was the l.a.p.d. doing sitting up in the legal roadblock hundreds of miles to the east stopping other americans from coming into the state of california as the wood for a foreign country and where does the jurisdiction in the? longline lit? i don't get it. anyway, it was unconstitutional. they didn't care about it. what they were doing is stopping and turning back anybody who looked unemployable. that's the word they used. now how could you prove that you were not in unemployable? you would reach into your pocket is a pullout $50 if you could show $50 of the old to the border guard you might make it into the golden state of california where you would be sure to get a less than warm welcome anyway. so, woody took a look at the situation and he said kind of a musical postcard to the folks back home pulling up stakes coming back to california maybe they'd better think again. ♪ now lots of folks back east say they are leaving home most every d

he traveled around the world the whole year with his family, being financed by william randolph hearst, who he wrote articles for. he went around the world and went to indonesia, then controlled by the dutch, and at each stop he denounced the european powers that controlled those countries. in principle he was opposed to rich countries funding for countries. that does not mean that he was opposed to all wars. he was opposed to what he saw as an unjust war. as secretary of state, he resigned 1915 because he thought that the united states was about to enter world war i. the lusitania had been torpedoed by a german u-boat. the united states did not get into the war at that time, but he resigned because he was so opposed to the war. he thought it was an insane war that the united states should not be a part of. >> what was his relationship like with woodrow wilson during the campaign in 1912 and in his tenure as secretary of state? >> he comes around to supporting wilson in the convention in baltimore, when he supports and helps put wilson over the top at that time when you need 67% of del