the slump had no apparent cause, at least none that was evident to the wilson administration. sury secretary william mcadoo shrugged off the recession as "a propaganda of pessimism." republicans had no doubt why the economy faltered. it was that dangerous democrat woodrow wilson. while many were quick to blame wilson, few thought the government should intervene to correct the situation. the prevailing point of view seemed to be that the business cycle was correcting an imbalance, and that by intervening, you might only make things worse. by the government coming in and purchasing more goods and services to take up for the lack of business investment they might adversely affect the little business investment that there was. it's doubtful that this attitude provided much comfort to the unemployed workers who lined new york streets demanding assistance workers who had barely recovered from the panic of 1907. but when relief came it changed the world. when europe hurled itself into battle in august 1914 neutral americans began supplying food and weapons for the belligerents on both

sometimes forget that -- hoover came back from his relief work in europe to serve under the wilson administration in 1917 and he was pretty much here serving one president or another until he became president himself in st 28. so -- and entered the white house in 1929. so lou was very much in the washington social circle to the extent that she wasn't in california or working with her girl scouts. but lou was considered to be a tremendous style icon, emulated and believed to be one of the best-dressed women in washington. she is also, when she became first lady, one of the first -- excuse me -- the first lady to be photographed for vogue magazine and vogue does a photo shoot on every first lady now. this is one of our day dresses. we can see that that soft dressing style began to show with grace coolidge is still dominating today -- when she is first lady. these are some photographs -- and i want to give a special appreciation to mar cuss eckheart here on the staff of the hoover, who went up into storage and pulled two dresses for me so i could show you some of the detail of the things that lou wo

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they sent ross wilson during the george w. bush administration. he's just a place holder.he only got back to the region this past saturday. so the president is going to try to defeat isis this week. turkey is assuredly going to be key to that strategy. we have a huge ask and we have nobody to ask. it's one thing to talk about the world being a mess. it's another thing talking about congress being a mess makes the world being a mess. it's summer break in july. the senate was shamed into finally confirming an ambassador to russia after months not having one and a huge stand off with russia. we, at the time, they were finally at the last second before vacation shamed into signing one up. now that the senate is back from vacation and not for very long, maybe we can finally get an ambassador to turkey now, too? maybe? no rush. >>> a year ago this week, stuck in epic traffic because lanes were closed down on the world's busiest bridge on what appears to be on the order of new jersey governor chris christie. democrats marked the one-year an verse ri with a press conference at the

wilson. asked me to take over the united states food administration.so i became food administrator of the united states. continued on that until the time of the armistice in 1918. then i was asked to go to europe on behalf of all the allied governments to take on the food supply responsibility for some 315 million people in eastern europe. >> that work ended when, sir? >> i took it up again in russia in 1923. so you might say i had spent about nine years on that kind of a job. >> by that time were you in the president's cabinet as secretary of commerce. >> i was. >> and then you also had some relief work left to put on your shoulder as secretary of commerce, did you not? >> well, that was the russian problem. >> we had one job in mississippi. >> that's what i was referring to. could you tell us something about that? >> the flood of 1927 was the greatest flood that's ever been known across the mississippi from cairo down. >> and the protections were weak and they all gave way and the country for 1,000 miles north and south and from 70 to 150 miles so pr

lou: lou: ferguson, missouri, and this administration, eric holder saying they are going after police department, as well as the police officer darren wilsonwho shot and killed michael brown. >> well, i have mixed feelings about this i don't have a problem with abstract with justice department duplicating the investigation, if there are public doubts, or investigating the police about whom there have been questions about possible civil right violations, but i am hesitant to trust eric holder, he has had an agenda of desperate impact, i wish we had an attorney general i had more confidence in? jim: if we had a justice deputy that was no -- if we had a justice department that was not so politsizeed by this administration, a neutral objective justice department, that is its proper role? >> i agree, but when you invoke race, that is what he has done, he is bril brilliant but they at seen as great leaders who happen to have a 7 race. they are not great leaders who are black, they play that race card, when they get a chance. lou: their critics are now summarizeed and decried by them as racists. racial will inspired, that gives s them in their mi

presidents do, you think they remember theodore roosevelt put the food and drug administration in place. or woodrow wilson the federal reserve. do they even remember roosevelt and social security. i love the anecdote about the guy who said i don't want the federal government fooling with my medicare. >> right. >> so you know, it's this idea that but what they remember is rhetoric. and kennedy asked not what your country can do for you. reagan warning in america the pride is back soichlt think they make connection, and television, television he is enormously important. kennedy's froze in our minds at the age of 46. if he were alive-- he is 96 years old, but if he walked into this room at the age of 46, he would look like one of us. we still have a kind of presence. >> you give use lot more credit. >> that's right. >> he also had a little bit easier than later presidents because for instance when jeff was watching those press conferences in the afternoon there were three networks, how many of the networks koferpd the press conference, jeff. and when he gave the cuban missile crisis speech, 90% of the countr

ferguson police officer darren wilson will face criminal charges in the shooting death of michael brown now has until january 7th to make its decision. a court administratorays the grand jury doesn't need to take all that time if it doesn't need it. if they do not indict officer wilson, bob mccull la, the district attorney said today he will release full transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings if a judge allows it. up next, breaking news, nfl news tonight. ray rice has appealed. he's officially appealed his suspension from the nfl. eachwon't have a claim.wners that's why allstate claim free rewards gives you money back for every year you don't have one. and why if you're part of the other 5%, allstate offers claim rateguard. so your rates won't go up just because of a claim. no matter what comes your way, your home protects you. ...protect it back allstate home insurance from an allstate agent. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. >>> breaking news

ferguson police officer darren wilson will face criminal charges in the shooting death of michael brown now has until january 7th to make its decision. a court administrator says the grand jury doesn't need to take all that time if it doesn't need it. if they do not indict officer wilson, bob mcculloch the district attorney said today he will release full transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings if a judge allows it. up next, breaking news, nfl news tonight. ray rice has appealed. he's officially appealed his suspension from the nfl. guys! you're not gonna believe this! watch this. sam always gives you the good news in person, bad news in email. good news -- fedex has flat rate shipping. it's called fedex one rate. and it's affordable. sounds great. [ cell phone typing ] [ typing continues ] [ whoosh ] [ cell phones buzz, chirp ] and we have to work the weekend. great. more good news -- it's friday! woo! [ male announcer ] ship a pak via fedex express saver® for as low as $7.50. [ male announcer ] ship a pak via fedex express saver® we are a collection of smalls. a home saved. a hero homebound for a new opportunity. a kitchen that kick starts c

wilson center. he served as middle east adviser in democratic and republican administrations. good to see you this morning, sir. let's set the stakes on the white house meeting with congressional leaders. he finishes an isis strategy, about to announce to the nation tomorrow. let's talk about those stakes. >> you know i don't think there will be much pushback from congress for two reasons. number one, there's little consensus on the critical issues that define the domestic agenda here. there is a fair amount of consensus even among republicans on what the right approach to isis and to america's involvement in the rest of the world really is. that's number one. there's more consensus than you think. number two, i don't think congress right now, frankly, wants the responsibility to have to vote down an effort to deal with what is probably the most serious terrorist organization since the emergence of al qaeda. if you look at what happened in 2013 with the redline episode. i'm told that congressional calls are running 10-1 against military action. so i suspect they'll allow the p

wilson center. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> after the break, the obama administration's most significant response to the shootingeath of michael brown. the commerce department just announced a investigation of the entire police department of ferguson, missouri. that's next on "now." >> i feel sorry for any single girl today. the styles and the whole society is not for single girls, you know that. single man, yes. a man is single and he's so lucky. a boy on the date only has to be as clean and able to pick up the check and he's a winner. you know that. or a man could call up anybody in the whole world, you know that? hello, i saw your name in the locker room. i thought i'd give you a quick call. >> the indomitable joan rivers. she passed away earlier this afternoon at the age of 81. according to her daughter melissa she was surrounded by family and close friends. earlier this year rivers made her final appearance on "the tonight show," a show she used to guest host 49 years after her first appearance. >> ethnic people get emotional. what? nothing. ethnic people -- irish cry -- you say to an italian woman, your mo

president wilson asked me to take over the united states food administration. so i became food administrator of the united states. continued on that until the timÑ of the armistice in 1918. then i was asked to go to europe on behalf of all the allied governments to take over their rehabilitation of the food supply for some 315 million people in europe. >> that work ended when, sir? >> i took it up again in russia in 1923. so you might say i had spent about nine years on that kind of a job. >> by that time, of course, you were in the president's cabinet as secretary of commerce. >> i was. >> and then you also had some relief work left to put on your shoulder as secretary of commerce, did you not? >> well, that was the russian problem. >> we had one job in mississippi. >> that's what i was referring to. could you tell us something about that? >> the flood of 1927 was the greatest flood that's ever been known along the mississippi from cairo down. >> and the protections were weak and they all gave way and the country for 1,000 miles north and south and from 70 to

ferguson, missouri police officer darren wilson-- the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown on august 9-th-- have been shut down-- while administrators figure out how to distribute the funds. >> james:two separate campaigns on the go fund me dot com website stopped taking donations over the weekend. >> james:the pages have collectively raised more than 400-thousand dollars. >> james:a saint louis area teenage girl began the initial fundraiser. >> james:shield of hope, a charity run by the local police union, set up the second one. >> james:but now the pages will be merged and shield of hope will take over handling of the funds. >> james:officials say if the money cannot be used for wilson's defense, it will go to support the wilson family's needs. >> james:a 3-point-7 magnitude earthquake rattled southern california last night. >> james:the u-s geological survey says, the quake struck riverside county. in the san jacinto area. >> james:so far -- no reports of any injuries but people on social media did report feeling the ground shake. >> james:days after the napa earthquake -- state governor jerry brown has asked president obama to d

wilson international center. and we're also joined by the direct you for the center of mideast studies. this week the obama administration been laying out the case the try to drum up support for the u.s. plan against the islamic state. how much support is there in jordan where you are? >> there's a lot of support in jordan against, you know, isis. that does not mean, of course, again boots on the ground in the case of the jordanian, but it will mean a lot of intelligence support, a lot of logistical support, a lot of support that we've seen before when jordan cooperated with the americans against abu musab al-zarqawi and the predecessor of i.s. in iraq in 2007. you can expect much of that support again. >> sreenivasan: what's your take on the people and the leaders in the middle east and how much they support the u.s. plan? >> i think one always has the make that distinction between the people and the leaders of the middle east, because what the people want is not always reflected in sort of official, elite position. i think there's always the back drop of the legacy of external intervention, the legacy of colonialism, a

administration. what was the next step towards achieving abolition of affirmative action? this gentleman, ward connelly, californian. he had been close to the republican governor pete wilson in the 1980's when he was mayor of san diego and then governor. and, what the strategy here is put on the ballot for these different states affirmative action measures that californians will vote for and call it civil rights. so, he starts in 1995, the american civil rights initiative. he is borrowing the language of civil rights, but saying affirmative action has gone too far. it has become a discriminatory measure against whites in favor, unfairly, of people of color and women. you put it on the measure and it is constructed as a civil rights initiative and it wins handily in california in 1996. it means that california and any california governmental entity, including the university of california system, california state university system, can not include admissions considerations of race, ethnicity, or gender. the policy becomes one of -- california and begin to go to other places. >> you mentioned yesterday a lot of the backlash came from the vietnam war since the economic downfa

administration officials on capitol hill right now selling president obama's strategy against isis. secretary of state john kerry testifying before the house foreign affairs committee. congressman joe wilson of south carolina just asked mr. kerry whether america is actually at war. the secretary was not able to give a direct answer. meantime, defense secretary chuck hagel fielding questions from the house armed services committee ahead of a key vote in the senate on whether to phone the president's request to arm and train rebels in the fight against the terror group. all this as critics are raising serious new concerns about all the mixed messages from the administration after a long list of military professionals have now said we can not rule out american ground troops to get the job done. >> i don't believe the objective is destroy. i think the objective is morphed into something less than that from the president's speech a week ago. i think it's more degrade and dismantle. because of the actions and decisions he is making about the military plan. >> what's the best way forward? >> time for real talk with kimberly, the institute of the study of war. great to have you on the show, and i

but he got paid administration leave, which is a paid va dacat, the same leave darren wilson is on whorown over a month ago. >> but we make ourselves feel better by having rage about this space, but it is precisely because of what the nfl is to us. it is precisely because it is the place where we want to bring our kids, wear the jerseys, feel good and get our americana on. the fact that the congress is a mess, we knew that. the fact that the police are kind of a mess, at least some of us already knew that. but we want football to be the place where we can all come together and then suddenly -- >> and that's the piece -- i don't think it's selective rage. for people like myself who have been involved in the prevention of violence against women, this is not selective rage, this is rage that has been going on for a long time. so what's going to be rage for those of us who care about this issue is when this becomes a story about the nfl. this is not a story about the nfl. what happened in that elevator was not an nfl moment. >> no, it's janay rice's moment. >> exactly. that's where the att

ground right there, the obama administration has taken the remarkable step to send a temporary ambassador to turkey while it tries to get a full-time one. they sent ross wilson. but again, he's a place holder, his appointment is only temporary and he only just got back to the region this past saturday. so the president is going to roll out his strategy to defeat isis this week. turkey will be key for that strategy. we have a huge ask of that country and we have nobody to ask. we have no permanent ambassador there. it's one thing to talk about the world being a mess. it's another thing to say that congress being a mess makes the world being a mess an impenetrable mess. the congress have set a new bar in this particular area. you may remember, before the senate began his break in july, the senate was shamed into finally confirming an ambassador to russia after months of not having one, and us having this huge stand-off with russia. we needed an ambassador at russia, they were finally at the last second before vacation, shamed into signing one up. now that the senate is back from vacation and not very, very long, maybe we can finally get an ambassador to turkey