as it turns out, the rights in reference to woodrow wilson, the dark horse at the moment, he hopes he is the president for all the people. i think that actually reason eads so profoundly because we have the opposite in play. he is one of the leading in-electuals who represents as a party leader the traditions of a white supremacist party in terms of everything following the civil war, they see in woodrow wilson a kind of intellectualism and thoughtful leadership that could ultimately tlod him being the president of all the people. they are almost completely the reverse. the president of all the people in the 2012 election is to push back against the potential where the president had special interests like african-american orula tono voters. there was an interesting ark over 100 years in how the language is used in terms of the big approach to reform and change. >> the whole language of the people against the whole language of the people is created in the progressive era. before then too. you have a lot of ambiguities and contradictions. there were a lot of progressives who think jim c

so woodrow wilson who had been the president of princeton university endorsed the film. it's a true story of race relations and really saw it as a moment of reconciling long standing regional differences between the north and south difference of racial equality. that was a betrayal to the people who supported. later they supported the interview and it's not as if it was an unmitigated critique, but it was significant. federal patriot is to southern congress people. he purged african-american leadership and 31 federal jobs held by republicans and down to eight within three years under wilson. >> segregate and allowed southern cabinet officers and the post office departments and others as well. there was a great moment in 1914 where there was a group of black leaders who come to meet with the president. we had a newspaper journalist from boston denouncing the president in effect in his office. after that wilson said i don't want to be with these people ever again. they don't understand me and we have nothing in common. that was an amazing moment. >> you are writing recentl

there are huge differences between barack obama and woodrow wilson, of course, but they both do believe in using the government to a power of big business. >> and the person that we've skipted over here is frank din radiosed it best ideas of the progressive area and some of his administrators cut their teeth in government. >> who is a democrat then. he didn't support it wilson and became part of his cabinet. >> you pointed out the four candidates that ran that year and all pretty prominent americans. why in the 100 years since we've had an election would that sort of fire power in terms of four separate parties and candidates? >> well, this goes back to the structure of the american party system. in most times the two parties were able to absorb discontent, either on the right or on the left to a large degree and convince enough voters that third parties don't make a lot of sense because you'll be wasting your vote or helping the greater evil defeat the lesser evil. we've had third parties but kind of like the progressive party in 1912, one-shot deals, like ross perot. and then he gives

it's dubois who is one of the leading intellectuals of this moment is banking on woodrow wilson as a democratic candidate who represents as a party leader the traditions of a white supremacist party in terms of everything following the civil war, dubois sees in woodrow wilson a kind of intellectualism, a kind of professionalism, a kind of thoughtful leadership that could ultimately lead to him being the president of all the people, but the rhetoric today is almost completely the reverse. the president of all the people in the 2012 election is to push back against the potential for the president having special interests like african-american voters or latino voters, so there's an interesting arc over 100 years in how that language is used in terms of this sort of big tent approach to reform and change. >> i think it's very important what was said, the whole language of the people against the special interests really is greatest in the progressive era, not just 1912 but before then, too. and you have a lot of ambiguities and contradictions in reform because there are a lot of southern

eric olson, instituto de mexico woodrow wilsonproblemas de ejecuciones extrajudiciales, pero en particularema de tortura, falta de debido proceso. el tema de ahora es el cremento o y como el estado mexicano responde ante esta violencia.' en su informe anual sobre derechos humanos en el mundo, el departamento de estado mostro su preocupacion por muertes, desapariciones y torturas por parte de militares mexos en la lucha contraolson, instituto de mexico woodrow wilsonel tema es como van a responder. como responde la sedena, como responde la procuraduria general de la republica y si vemos 1 tendencia de impunidad o no." sobre cuba el informe critico las detenciones arbitrarias y ataques libertad de expresion como en el caso de las damas de blanco. tambien se criticaron ataques a la libertad de expresion en venezuela y ecuador. standup: fernando pizarro, washington d.c.en el lado positivo, el departamento de estado alabo al gobierno colombiano por fortalecer el sistema judicial, y combatir la impunidad en ataques a activistas de derechos humanos, sindicalistas y periodistas. desde washington,

surery woodrow wilson would be proud of her. before that speech, i invited a group of former female colleagues from congress to breakfast with her. i keep a picture of that meeting in my office. there she is. towering over the vertically challenged senator barbara mccull ski and me. one senator present said something i haven't forgotten. said she, thank you for doing this. we never talk to each other anymore. many former colleagues in this room will agree. our current es kwis it congressional dysfunction highlights why the safe political space at the wilson center is so critical. and why it is so critical to salute problem solvers like secretary clinton and director lagarde. from sin kronized swimming to strategic networking, christine lagarde's career includes managing director of a major international law firm, finance minister of france, now head of the world's primary financial institution and maybe a little later president of france? [ applause ] she is a big player with big ideas. with courage, insight and humor. at the wo

i'd like to acknowledge the support and assistance of our partner organizations, our host the woodrow wilson international center for scholars, the federation of state humanities councils represented by president eser mcintosh, justice at stake and its executive director bert brandenburg, the league of women voters represented by executive directder nancy tate, and the national center for state courts represented by its president mary mcqueen. please join me in thanking all of them for their support. i'd also like to acknowledge the american bar association staff which has worked so hard to organize this and our other law day activities and particularly those in the aba's public education division which organizes this annual event and the communications and media [division. each iraqi the aba selects a theme that can inform and inspire the hundreds of law day programs and activities that take place in courthouses, schools, state capitals and city halls across america. this year's theme "no courts, no justice, no freedom" was chosen to call attention to a problem of which many of our f

you had woodrow wilson it was the grandson and son of presbyterian ministers saying it was his greatest privilege to be able to help the jewish people return to their holy land, and woodrow wilson was absolutely instrumental in helping to persuade the british to issue what they call the balfour declaration, which the british empire threw its weight behind the recreation of jewish homeland then called palestine. and that balfour declaration became the basis of the 1947 u.n. partition resolution keep creating an arab and jewish state in palestine, which the jews accepted. and it was a big debate again in this country whether the united states should ask of recognize the re-created jewish state but in any event which is completely unique in the annals of american foreign policy, and i know of no other case like this, higher foreign policy establishment and the united states, state department, defense department, pentagon, without exception told the president of the united states don't do it. of america recognizes this jewish state will be a cutoff of oil from the east to the united states.

woodrow wilson was absolutely instrumental in helping to persuade the british to issue what they called the balancefour declaration. they threw their weight between what was now palestinian and it became the basis of the u.n. participation resolution creating an arab and jewish state, which the jews accepted and then whether the united states should recognize the recreated jewish state. in an event which is completely unique in the annals of foreign policy, i know of no other case like this, the state department, the defense department, the pentagon, without exception told the president of the united states don't do it. if america recognizes this jewish state, there's going to be a cutoff of oil from the middle east to the united states. american soldiers are going to get embroiled in a war there because the jews don't know how to defend themselves. don't do it. the secretary of state at the time, george marshall, who was the most revered american of his generation, said that if the president recognized the jewish state, he, george marshall, wouldn't vote for him in the 1948 presidentia

i was a graduate student at columbia in the early '60s and the great biographer, woodrow wilson, arthur link, had written in one of his books that louis brandeis was the architect of the new intellectual freedom. so i did all the paperwork, you know, and researched brandeis a little bit. got it approved. and then in the fall of 1964, i moved to columbus, ohio, for my first teaching job at ohio state. a few months later i went down to louisville where the brandeis papers are. and this i made two discoveries. the first one was there wasn't enough information on that particular topic to support a dissertation, but the brandeis letters were a gold mine of information. so, david levy, who was a colleague of mine at ohio state, and i began work to get the commission to edit the brandeis letters. as my wife says, louie has been loving with us ever since. >> how did you get permission and from whom? >> well, the papers are in the possession of the university of louisville law library. and as it turns out the dean of the library knew a member of the brandeis family who knew one of our senior pro

it is truly a pleasure to be here at the woodrow wilson. if you had the opportunity please look around this spectacular building and facility. this is our 11th annual public program to commemorate law day in our third year conducting it here at the wilson center. we are very pleased to have the wilson center as our host and program partner. at this time, i have the pleasure of introducing my good friend and a great american bar leader, mark a. grass who is serving as national law day chair. mark? >> thank you, bill and thank you all for joining us for this annual law day celebration. the tradition we observe today began in 1958 when american bar association president charles ryan persuaded dwight d. eisenhower for law day. since this every u.s. president including president obama has issued a proclamation acknowledging may 1st as national law day. our host, the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. the state humanities councils, represented by ester mcintosh. justice at stake and burt brandenburg. the legal of women voters respe

so we have woodrow wilson, which he is the one that one. and [laughter] theodore roosevelt had already been president and running as the aggressive old news challenger to william howard taft. then you have eugene death. the only election in american history were a socialist has played a really significant role. what is interesting about that election is with the exception of taft, all of the candidates are running with class language and having real mobilization around the issue. the 1930's and of being somewhat different. we all think of franklin roosevelt running around class language in 1932, but especially in 1936. the issue is not as much in the quality, because some of the people are poor that you have this mass experience. i think the interesting parallel because the political language, and also to my great dismay we are actually back in terms of physical inequality where we were at the beginning of the 20th century. >> at the constitutional convention or the writing of the declaration of independence, john adams got an argument with

parents were of a generation of first check slow vak yan, didn't start until 1918 and basically wood woodrow wilson and world war i. they did not think of themselves as belonging to any religion. so they then spent the war in england and it was interesting to see how all of the decisions were made there. for me, my question was, my parents died by the time this all -- i found out about everything, so i couldn't ask them questions, so speculating about what their motivations were and how they operated, then also discovering yet again what a hideous story the nazi story was, how sadistic in many ways. a lot of my family was in ter zeen, a prison camp and what the nazis did was create a group of jewish elders and made them choose who went onto the death camp. i found out about some very difficult decisions that were made by members of my family, for instance, i had my father's sister, who had two children, and one of the daughters was sent out of check slow vak ya on a train for jewish children but the parents felt the younger daughter was too young and did not send her in order to protect her.

he graduated from woodrow wilson high school and eventually moved to maryland.ather says his son was a leader and as on his second in tour of duty afghanistan. he has inspired a lot of people. i will always be proud of him. >> he was an only child. his father says his latest tour duty was supposed to end in september. to georgeto go washington university and had to threeeen accepted other schools. representatives of barley, other house, and hold a news today followed by a .anel discussion provide itted to the with theorths obama -- far worse than with the obama administration is telling us. the city reports an increase of 8000 jobs in april. the public sector lost about 900 but the same time the gained 8900 jobs. that brings the unemployment rate up to 5.1%. in april, the national 8.1%.oyment rate was >> the national park service has approved deer hunting as a plan populationhe deer years.e next 15 starting in january, hunters to 20e allowed to kill up dear per square mile. visitors to the part will be the planned ahead of time. still no verdict in the john edwa

he joined graduating from woodrow wilson high school in d-c. his dad didn't want him to go... for 8:29 what heesaid to us though it. ann that killed us 37 do 3chase received several honors durrng his short military career... including the purple heartt he was scheduled to return home t the end of june. hh'll be laid to resttin arlinggon nationaa cemetary sometime next week. myrandd altimore city police continue tt investigate a head on head vehicle collisionnthat happened in northeast bbltimore. baltimore.it hhppened along just after noon earlier todaa. - police say they were &pinvestigatinn possible narcotic activity when the suspect took off in theii ccr, jumped a curb and slammed directly into anotter car. ambulances were on the scene but no word on any injuries. police did arrest the suspect. the state lawmakee who raised the issue of inner hhrbor safety is now challenging the televised debate. to a the beating attcourthouse east was one of the reesons ddlegate pat mcdonough says he called for the state police to get involved ... now he says he waats to ddbate the mayor st

only two lanes between woodrow wilson bridge and telegraph road will be open monday morning. it is part of a major repaving project. drivers are urged to use the local lane tomorrow. >> a local wounded warriors big action debut in the film "battleship." >> doug has a warning about severe weather coming our way. >> tigers on the brawl in ohio. robert griffin iii as the top- selling jersey in the nfl, he is working hard to make them number one in the nfc east. >> we are back with the story of a local wounded warrior and what could be his big break in hollywood. >>"battleship"is in theaters right now. he lost both of his legs to a road side balm and iraq years ago. -- bomb in iraq years ago. >>mick is taking down aliens in the film "battleship." in real life, he is a full-time soldier who directs the wounded warrior program after losing both legs and iran it. now he is attending movie premieres. fans recognize him wherever they go. >> you can see the wheels turning and they are really not sure. they are like, it cannot be that guy. clucks the director saw his picture in national

>> i set out to write an introduction to a book and i remember i was a fellow at the woodrow wilson center. i was not a scholar but courted would an early historian was there i called him professor would. i am writing a book about the 20th century and introduction of the role of government of the 19th century. could you recommend a few books? he said don't start of the 19th century. you never get to the 20th century. it is true. if their readers barrault or by the book and open the pages they will see it is written to address the real debates we have today over the proper role of government to put into historical perspective. >> host: brian balogh and the author of "a government out of sight" the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century america" this is booked tv on c-span2 >> joining us now with the director of education for the intercollegiate studies institute. what it is isi. nonprofit foundation bill buckley was the first president. and mission is to educate for liberty to go to college students to provide the intellectual foundation of their conservatism. >> host: but you

you cannot imagine woodrow wilson doing this. i wish to turn to our panelists now. there are many of us. i pledged to enforce our time limit. 12 minutes for each of the speaker. if i just there is enough time remaining, i will come back and say a few words myself. the next thing on our agenda, which is to invite comments among the panelists, the speakers, for about 15 minutes and then we will turn, with 25 minutes left, to q&a from the audience. we have a fair amount of time. there is what to do but i think we can get a lot done. i am the person to enforce the time limit. i remind all of you, i was a prosecutor in manhattan for several years. , was the pimp prosecutor. i'm not tough but i know a lot of stuff people. each of our speakers will speak for about five minutes from their seats and i will briefly introduce each of them before each one of them speaks. they're not necessarily going to speak in the order from right to left or from left to right. i wish to turn now to our first speaker, she is now chief counsel for the leading, most effective religious liberty

he took over in november after the team fired woodrow.hem general manager says he did not try to change his mind. he told mcfee wants to return to canada to spend more time with his family. the preakness has a field of 10 set for saturday's race, but you can scratch any umba references. hampton -- hanson captured attention leading up to the kentucky derby, but did not impress anyone in the race. just a reminder, wbal tv 11 is your home for all things. yes. -- all things preakness. will be live from pimlico saturday, may 19, five days away. the summer olympics begin in just under 74 days. and for michael phelps, i'd means crunch time in his preparations. he already holds the record for medals in the game, 16th overall, 8 gold. but he has had inconsistent results since beijing. he sounds ready to lock in for final preparations. >> i think the biggest thing i know it's just being able to move in the right direction. my performances have not been too great in training. this is an exciting time. it is going to be a fun summer. i have been able

the 22 linked in edge water and gruted in 2008 from woodrow wilson high school in d.c. an army soldier was also killed. he died when his helicopter crashed near kabul. >> a dramatic sequence in prince george's county. police say it ended with a

formed in 1918 very much based on america, woodrow wilson and basically a country set up in order to determine immediate consideration. -- self determination. the constitution was based on the american constitution with one exception. the first president was married to an american woman and they were married at the end of the 19th century. anyway, the issue was that there were minorities in check slovakia and the big one was the german minority. the story was that the german minority didn't feel it was treated properly. they were -- they then, as i learned history, were alleged in many ways of providing the environment for the creation of a nazi party there. >> jon: right. >> so they were viewed as traitors. in many cases they were. what happened after the war once the allies had won, the germans were pushed out ofçxd czechoslovakia and when i was ambassador and then secretary of state and we were talking about ethic cleansing in the former yugoslavia and what do you think your people did to the germans, they pushed them out, too? i don't believe in selective guilt. one of the reaso

at the end of world war i, woodrow wilson envisioned a new world forum. founded at paris peace conference the league of nations was intended to be a new arena for people in countries to hash out their differences. this high minded concept appealed to one young man in particular. >> he showed up at the paris peace conference wanting better treatment for vietnam. he was basically said go away, that is for white people. >> he would become known to the world, ho chi minhn. >> born in did 1890 he grew up witnessing his father's frustration under french rule. he traveled to french as a ship's cook to see how the other half lived. he would dedicated his life to a single purpose, vietnamese independence. ho turned to the world's first communist power, the new russian revolutionary government was the enemy of all capitalist governments. the reason he became a communist it looked like a good avenue for vietnam. >> while still in france he helped founded the french communist party and he soon was living in moscow. >> he was given training by communists in organizati

wilson's taylor when woodrow wilson was president of princeton university. imagine how vulnerable that was. she was going back to princeton for a high school reunion and we decided we would meet at princeton for lunch but since i got there early i went out to the institute and the receptionist when i told her my little bit of history said why don't you go over to the library. you might be interested in what is over it there and what was over there was a display of the institute electronic computers this -- 50 years ago in the case i found onionskin copies of letters with my initials at the bottom. all those years later i probably didn't remember writing those letters, but the librarian at the institute said i think you might like to meet george dyson because he is writing a book about the electronic computer project. and left my telephone number and the next day george telephoned and i came back to princeton and we have had a friendship -- and i got to -- if that is any interest to you. when i was 16 years old i graduated from high school in philadelphia, wi

our member, a fellow at the woodrow wilson center. they had a number if of illustrious scholars. i was not one of them. gordon would call wonderful historian. i said to i'm writing this book about the 20 century to let and a real injection about the role of governments in the 19th century and i was wondering if you could recommend a few bucks for me. he said those during rut the 19th century, you'll never get to the charges century. proved prophetic. this book and never did get to the 20th century, but if they buy the book, then they open the pages cover his ears and remains to address the very real the dates that we're having today over the proper role of government and trying to put that in historical perspective. >> the author of this book caught the government out of sight, mystery of national authority in 18th-century america. this is book tv and c-span2. >> you're watching a c-span2 un book tv. forty hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> here is a look at some books that are being published this week.

drifting by the woodrow wilson bridge in the distance behind him.rent temperature at national airport, a little bit of filtered sunshine, 84 degrees, dew points in the mid 60s so humidity 53%, south wind at 8%. southerly winds will continue for the remainder of the holiday weekend. so if you like today, there's very good news in the forecast for the next couple days. 84 now in frederick, maryland. 85 in waldorf, and la plata. 79 at naval air station. 80 degrees in annapolis, and folks, along the west side of the chesapeake bay, picking up a hint of a cooling bay breeze, but across virginia, mid to upper 80s. this evening, partly cloudy. there are some storms firing north and west. we'll be fading out between now and 10:00, and evening temperatures mostly back into the mid and upper 70s. storm 4 radar, most showers now along the maryland//pennsylvania border, drifting southbound but losing intensity they come south. if you live north of i-70, close to the pennsylvania line, you have a very good chance of getting some of these showers. the further dow

at the woodrow wilson center in washington, john brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, called weaponed dnes th legal a ethical and said their use is consistent with the country's right to defend itself. >> there is nothing in international law that bans the use of remotely piloted aircraft for this purpose or that prohibits us from using lethal force against our enemies outside of an active battlefield. >> for more on this, kim lawton is here. she is managing editor of this program. we are joined by stephen l. carter, a professor at yale law school and author of "the violence of peace: america's wars in the age of obama." he joins us from new haven. professor carter, welcome to you. >> thank you. >> john brennan said that the use of drones is legal, perfectly legal, you agree with that? >> i think the administration is right. we're a nation at war and in time of war a belligerent certainly has the right to target the leaders of the other side who are in the chain of command and that's what we are doing. >> but if the battlefield in essence here has

also scholar, woodrow wilson international center for scholars, also the author of "the swing vote: theped power of independents". that is a lot of what we're going to discuss today actually. the first question is about the swing vote and whether -- which way they are going to swing basically is the question. let me give you some polls to start out with. according to the latest "washington post," president obama up by three points. that's nearly meaningless at this point. just showing you everything is near a tie. on how they would handle the economy, they are tied job creation basically tied 46 45. and romney's bain background, 21% say major reason to support him. 21% major reason to oppose him, and 54% not much of a major fact for at all. linda as i look at this, it seems to be a dead heat at this point heading into the general election. so do we have any basis to decide based on this? >> of the polls that you talked about, the abc "washington post" poll that you talked about the one big area where there is a huge difference is the question that says who understands the problems of av

how perfectly this sums up the recipient tonight of the woodrow wilson award madam hillary rodham clinton, monoamie. [ applause ] >> oh my goodness. well, i am incredibly touched and grateful and a little embarrassed by the extraordinary outpouring of very kind words this evening starting with pred mallic who i greatly appreciate for reminding us that we're all on the same team, namely the american team. and my long time friend mack mcclarty. i want to thank christine for that introduction, but more than that for her leadership at the imf for her extraordinary strength and vision in these uncertain economic times. and for her very steady hand as she is trying to help lead us through them. i also want to thank all the members of congress and the diplomatic core here tonight. it is very good seeing a lot of my former colleagues getting to sit with my friend susan collins. and of course, i want to along with all of you salute our host jane harman. one of our nation's most articulate, thoughtful leaders on foreign policy and national security and now as president of the wilson center she is s

that was certainly the criticism that roosevelt launched in '32 and woodrow wilson in 1912 and william jennings bryant in 1836 up to today. that's sort of the point barack obama is making now during this camp

has been studying politics, and look at what we have a history of the presidency and people like woodrow wilson who wrote "a life in washington" and people in the office who earned it in terms of the deep thought of what the office meant h historically and mitt romney is not the guy. he is a man of faith, and we will give him that, of family, give him that, of business, and give him that, but certainly not of history and any historical understanding of the presidency, and he does not understand what it is. he thinks it is a business tin kerer job -- >> well, that is not fair. >> el the me what i have missed. >> well, first of all having served as governor is a step, but something deeper. this is a guy who has thought about this at least since his a father ran in 1968. >> doing what daddy couldn't do. >> but he has thought about it on a serious level. >> is that understand iing the country? >> well, having collided with him head-on and the organization head-on and now working with him on the campaign -- >> right. >> he has assembled a very smart group of people. and he listens to them wel

. >> also this weekend, sunday night at 9:30, woodrow wilson, teddy roos celt, william taft and eugene debs, the legacy of of the election. >> december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. >> tour the pearl harbor visitor center with dan martinez, chief historian at the national monument. three days of american history tv, this holiday weekend on c-span3. >> monday retired supreme court justice john paul stevens criticized the court's reent decisid -- recent decisions in -- >> let me tell you how i met justice stevens. many years ago in albuquerque, new mexico, justice stevens and his wife snuck in to play in a bridge tournament, and one of my partners at the time happily had been his clerk and invited he and his wife and barry and i to dinner. i couldn't even imagine meeting a justice of the supreme court, let alone go to dinner. they felt quite free to tell him what they thought of what he had just played. but at the end of the evening there was a kind of uncomfortable silence and justice stevens finally said to his former law clerk, greg, don't you want to invite me to come to

message that cecile richards brought to reasons to inform in new jersey at princeton university's woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs. the daughter of former texas governor ann richards, she spoke for about one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] >> i have to say i am honored to have the opportunity to introduce cecile richards. she has served as the head of planned parenthood since 2006. every year nearly 200 centers nationwide, this 95-year-old organization provides family planning, reproductive, and sexual health care to nearly 3 million people. during her tenure, she has expanded the organization's advocacy for access for health care. she has led a nationwide campaign to preserve access to planned parenthood's preventive care through federal programs. she started the youth initiatives program that trains young people each year in leadership skills and health care advocacy. she is invested in private -- planned parenthood online, a web site that provides mobile access to health information and is visited by 33 million visitors every year. under her leadership, the num

. >> first i want to thank the aba and the woodrow wilson for having all of you guys out here. you had a very interesting conversation this morning -- this afternoon. my question goes to something you spoke about earlier about dna testing and how that clears and has cleared a lot of inmate. there are states that have passed laws where you can't get dna testing, even though evidence may exist because that's just the way the law is now in those states. i would like to know what your thoughts are because i think if you can do it across the board through all the state, which you actually can't right now, then you would address, one, you wouldn't be imprisoning someone who is innocent, potentially innocent and you would reduce the overcrowding and cost the inmates because nobody wants a jail in their back yard. >> is anybody familiar with why the state that don't allow it don't allow it? i think it's resources. >> i was wondering if that was the case. >> remarkably the u.s. supreme court in a case just a few years ago held that there is no federal constitutional right to have access

. >> obama i'm predicting becomes the only president other than woodrow wilson to win re-election with a smaller electoral vote total than his first. chris: wo. >> republicans will spend more money than anyone has ever spent ever. >> the first mormon president or the first biracial president to be re-elected. >> you took mine. sgl thanks for the roundtable and the courage demonstrated by clarence page. john heilemann, kathleen parker, liz marlantes. that's the show. thanks for watching. see you back here next week.

president woodrow wilson suffered a stroke. franklin roosevelt was stricken with polio, and john f. kennedy battled agonizing back pain, all kept secret from the public but in today's world of blogs and tweets, much has changed. >> i think public figures recognizing that are more willing to be open and get ahead of the curve by letting everybody know what is going on. >> for his constituents, a window into kirk's rehabilitation and his ultimate goal. >> to climb the 45 steps that my staff counted from the parking lot to the senate front door. >> making his way back to the capitol one difficult step at a time. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. >>> and on capitol hill, there was an extraordinary late night exchange on the floor of the u.s. house of representatives earlier this week between two members of congress, both from the state of georgia. at issue, the voting rights act, a landmark law from 1965, to protect the rights of black voters. many southern states say they have remedied the discrimination from those days, but this week when georgia republican congressman paul brown prop

she's on leave from gw and is at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars here in washington. she's author of driving soviets up the wall, among other things. published by princeton university press in 2003 and recently published in german this year. dr. gregory w. pedlow has been chief of the historical office nato supreme headquarters, allied powers europe since 1989. previous positions have included staff historian for the cia and assistant professor of history at the university of nebraska. he received his ph.d. from the johns hopkins university in 1979 and is author of a number of books and articles on german history, nato and the cold war and waterloo campaign of 1815. dr. donald a. carter is currently historian. for u.s. army military history. he's been an assistant professor instructor at the university military academy at west point and at the u.s. army field artillery school. fort sill, oklahoma. he's a graduate of the u.s. military academy and holds a doctorate from ohio state university in military history. he's written articles for a number of publications such a

. >> obama i'm predicting becomes the only president other than woodrow wilson to win re-election with electoral vote total than his first. chris: wo. >> republicans will spend more money than anyone has ever spent ever. >> the first mormon president or the first biracial president to be re-elected. >> you took mine. sgl thanks for the roundtable and the courage demonstrated by clarence page. john heilemann, kathleen parker, liz marlantes. that's the show. thanks for watching. see you back here next week. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories, america's beverage companies are delivering.

aaron david miller who's second to my left is a public policy fellow at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars where he wrote his fourth book the much too promised land america's elusive search for arab israeli peace. he served six secretaries of state as an advisor on meld east peacemaking and u.s. policy throughout the region. dr. miller also served as a senior member of the state department's policy planning staff and in the bureau of intelligence and research. david ma cough ski at the end to my left is the distinguished fellow and director of washington's institute project on the middle east peace process. he co-authored the book "myths, illusions and peace" finding a new direction in the middle east. before joining the washington institute, he was and award winning journalist based in israel where he covered the peace process for the jerusalem post and usa news and world report. daniel pletka third from my left is vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the american enterprise institute. before joining the institute, she served for ten years as a very

it is truly a pleasure to be year of the woodrow wilson international center for scholars in the heart of the nation's capital. if you have the opportunity, please look around this spectacular building and facilities. this is our 11th annual milewski and our third year conducting here the willson center. we are very pleased to have the wilson center as our host and program partner. at this time i have the pleasure of introducing my good friend, and a great american bar leader mark serving as the national chair. mark? >> thank you, bill and all of you for joining us at this annual celebration. the tradition we observe today began in 1958 when american bar association president charles persuaded president dwight d. eisenhower to as published the day as a national dedication to the principles of government under the law. since then every u.s. president, including president obama has issued a proclamation recognizing may 1st as long day throughout the united states to provide electric knowledge and support the assistance of our partner organizations, our host the woodrow wilson internation

is a profoundly segregated city, and was segregated by a democrat, woodrow wilson. his appointments are quite interesting in that way. have you harold ickes, harry hopkins, aub bree williams and mary macleod buthoon. i used to say before 201 2001, they were the twin towers of the civil rights movement. there is a huge risk-taking mind-set. does that mean it goes as far as we want? no. i have been all over the map on this, and i have come to a very eleanor-like conclusion. and that is you can look at a glass and you can see it half empty or see the water keep increasing. i think both roosevelts did was really introduce to america the concept that the federal government was not just for the forgotten man or forgotten woman. as fdr said when he spoke at howard, not only will there be no forgotten man, there will be no forgotten races. we have policies, two executive orders that are issued. one for the wpa that outlaws segregation. wpa hiring practices, and then you have the fair employment practices commission doing that for the defense industry. do they work? no. do t

he graduated from stanford university law school and princeton university's woodrow wilson school of policy and international affairs. mr. ramiro, please proceed. >> good morning, senator durbin, ranking member graham. thank you for having me this morning. senator franken, senator blumenthal. i'm delighted to testify before you today. i am the national director of the american civil liberties uni union. a nonpartisan organization with over half a million members, hundreds of thousands of additional activists and supporters, and 53 state offices nationwide dedicated to the principles of equality and justice set forth in the u.s. constitution and in our laws protecting individual rights. for decades, the aclu has been at the forefront of the fight against all forms of racial profiling. racial profiling is policing based on crass stereotypes instead of facts, evidence, and good police work. racial profiling fuels fear and mistrust between law enforcement and the very communities they are supposed to protect. racial profiling is not only ineffective, it is also unconstitutional and viola

is a profoundly segregated city, and was segregated by a democrat, woodrow wilson. so his appointments i think are quite interesting in that way. you've got harold ickies, harry hopkins, aubrey williams and mary mcleod bethune. i want to say they were the twin towers of the pre-war civil rights movement. so there's a huge risk taking mind-set there. now, does that mean that it goes as far as we want? no. but i have been all over the map on this and i have come to a very eleanor-like conclusion. and that is you can look at a glass and you can see it half empty or you can see the water keep increasing, and what i think both roosevelts did was really introduce to america the concept that the federal government was not just for the forgotten man or for the forgotten woman, but as fdr said, when he spoke at howard, not only will there be no forgotten men, there will be no forgotten races. so we have policies. we have two executive orders that fdr issues, one for the wpa, the works progress administration, that outlaws segregation in wpa hiring practices and then you have