[booing] [booing] those are just think of what woodrow wilson stood for. but it were the conservative republicans who stood up against him. how many people are saying that it is the conservative position to not even belong to the united nations? 1913 was not a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, 16th amendment, and i rest. what is wrong with getting rid of the 16th amendment? i think it would be a great idea. [applause] and of course, i have already taken a very modest position on the monetary system. i take the position that we should just end the fed. [applause] [chanting "end the fed"] but there were other things that went on during the wilson administration. our foreign policy changed for the negative. his goal was to make the world safe for democracy, and he brought us into world war we should have never gotten into. [applause] and we, as conservatives, accepted his principal that we are under constitutional and legal responsibility to engage ourselves and make the world safe for democracy. i do not think it is possible. as a matter of fact i

woodrow wilson and van jones, who would have seen that comin coming?o hang out with senator kirsten gillibrand from new york. whoa! we should ask can her as a new york senator how she feels about the government blowing up the world trade cent center. they are going to be at a green's job forum. plus he has a new job at the exact place we told you we would end up at. the hard left soros funded progressive think tank/arm of the white house, the center for american progress. how close are they to the design of the white house policy? it's headed up by john pedesta. love this chap. he is great. john even announced the hiring of van jones. this is how they describe what he's been up to lately on their own website. as the surge, as cochair of president obama's transition, where he coordinated the priorities of the incoming administration's agenda. especial special interest group, coordinating agenda, oversaw developments of the policy and spearheaded the appointment of the major cabinet secretaries and political appointees. oh, is that all you've been doing

woodrow wilson stood for world government. he wanted a league of nations.tion to not even belong to the united nations? 1913 was not a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, 16th amendment, and i rest. what is wrong with getting rid of the 16th amendment? i think it would be a great idea. [applause] and of course, i have already taken a very modest position on the monetary system. i take the position that we should just end the fed. [applause] [chanting "end the fed"] but there were other things that went on during the wilson administration. our foreign policy changed for the negative. his goal was to make the world safe for democracy, and he brought us into world war we should have never gotten into. [applause] and we, as conservatives, accepted his principal that we are under constitutional and legal responsibility to engage ourselves and make the world safe for democracy. i do not think it is possible. as a matter of fact if you think back just a short time ago to the year 2000 when george bush was running, guess what he ran on? he was running agai

the in the run-up to world war i woodrow wilson is trying to get the senate and house to pass a bill hat will allow them to our merchant ships. that bill liz filibustered. eventually wilson goes public. he says look there is a band of what he called willful men, a little band of willful men blocking essentially the u.s. farming itself for well 41 and he essentially shames the senate to pass the bill and then he calls for the creation of the rule 22, the cloture rule. he says this is a war measure and we cannot be a nation that cannot go to war and creates the cloture rule. that allows senators save very hard supermajority to cut off debate. >> as a scholar studying this issue at that point what is your opinion of that? is that a good thing? is that it that thing core does not enter into it for you? >> the idea to get a cloture rule? the senate, but for then was essentially ungovernable. when we look at today's senate we say this is terrible. it is never been so partisan, never been so petty but if you look at the 19th century zenit tubeless just as bad. they had issues over civil righ

. >> what i read in 1917, there was some sort of a landmark event with woodrow wilson and world war i. what was that about? >> in the runup to world war i, woodrow wilson is trying it get the senate and the house to pass a bill that will allow them to harm merchant ships so they won't be attacked. that bill is filibustered in 1950, there's a huge filibuster and eventually wilson's bill is public. he says look, there's a ban of what he called willful men, 11 senators blocking essentially the u.s. arming itself for world war 1, and he essentially shames the senate to pass the bill and then he calls the creation of the rule basically we call it rule 22, the cloture rule. he says this is a war measurement we can't be a nation that can't go to war and he induces a large majority of the senate to introduce the cloture rule. that allows senators with a high super majority to cut of off debate. >> so as a scholar who studied this issue hat that point, what's your opinion of that, is that a good thing, is that a bad thing, or does that not enter into it for you. >> the idea to get a cloture ru

he gave a keynote address hosted by the woodrow wilson center.t's about 50 minutes. >> to the first institute for far eastern studies university of north korean studies forum at the center. it is also a pleasure for the center, the center's north korea international documentation project, and asia program, to be partnering with the institute for far east studies and the university of north korean studies, both affiliated with kyungnam university. we are honored to welcome a very distinguished group of scholars from the united states and korea. many of you in the audience, i know, have held high ranking positions in your respective governments. indeed, the combined expertise in this room is really quite remarkable. i want to especially to recognize the republic of korea's ambassador to the united states, duk-soo han, who is with us this point. former republic of korea ambassador to the united states, jounyung sun. and former national security adviser to the south korean president byung-young kim. it is a very special privilege to welcome dr. jae k

woodrow wilson stood for world government. he wanted a league of nations. amendment? i think it would be a great idea. [applause] and of course, i have already taken a very modest position on the monetary system. i take the position that we should just end the fed. [applause] [chanting "end the fed"] but there were other things that went on during the wilson administration. our foreign policy changed for the negative. his goal was to make the world safe for democracy, and he brought us into world war we should have never gotten into. [applause] and we, as conservatives, accepted his principal that we are under constitutional and legal responsibility to engage ourselves and make the world safe for democracy. i do not think it is possible. as a matter of fact if you think back just a short time ago to the year 2000 when george bush was running, guess what he ran on? he was running against an interventionist foreign policy. he was running against clinton policy, intervention nation- building and the world, and he was elected on that. there was nothing wrong wi

. >> in what i read in 1917,ing there was some sort of a landmark event with woodrow wilson in world war i. what's that about? >> woodrow wilson is trying to get the senate and house to pass a bill that will allow them to arm merchant ships to not be attacked by the germans. that bill is filibuster in 1915 and eventually wilson goes public. look, there's a man of willful man, a little ban of willful men, blocking the u.s. arming itself for world war i. he shames the senate to pass the bill. then he calls the creation of the rule basically, we call rule 22. the cloture rule. this is a war measure. we can't be a nation that can't go to war. he induced a large majority to create the cloture rule. that allows senates with a high majority to cut off the debate. >> as a scholar that studied the issue, what's your opinion of that, is that good, bad, or not enter into it for you? >> the idea to get a cloture. well, the senate before with then was ungovernable. you look at today's we say this is terrible. it's never been so partisan and petty. if we look at the 19th century, it was just as ba

came to woodrow wilson. i hate this guy. he was a progressive that said i'm going to help you out. it was quite clever, actually. worked to our advantage. instead of diving in world war i with guns ablazing and say we're going to help clean this mess up, he had a different plan. he said we'll help and loan you money, buy up your debt. wilson was in the middle of his re-election campaign. back then americans did not want to go to war in europe. it's none of our business. they're like our founding fathers, their business, not ours. isolationists when it came to foreign policy. wilson's campaign used a slogan wilson, he'll keep us out of war. he did. re-elected november 7, 1916. then sworn in on march 5, 1917. kept america out of war one month and one day later he formally declared war on germany. he was good for that promise for a month. by the end of world war i, the power shifted and really the schlubs, people like you and me, we didn't know it. the head of state did. the banks did. fwhauz's where the real battba dhashdhasdash that's where the real battle was won. then the world fi

. >> host: from what i read 1917 there was a landmark event with woodrow wilson and world 41. >> guest: in their run up to world war i wilson is trying to get the us senate that would allow them to arm the merchant ships. that this filibustered and eventually will sandoz public and says there is a band of willful men blocking the u.s. and he shames the senate to pass the bill then he calls the creation and rule 22 the cloture rule he said this is a war measure we cannot be a nation that doesn't go to war and creates a culture rule that allows the majority to cut off debate. >> host: as a scholar who studied the issue, what is your opinion of that? is that a good thing or a bad thing or that does not enter into it? >> before then it was essentially ungovernable. we say it is terrible. but looking at the 19th century, it was just as bad. it was perceived to be just as bad they had issues over civil-rights, anti-lynch jane laws, a tax is coming issues that the senate could not act. in light of that, the senate tried to change the rules. but as a bill with a supermajority rule in the senat

the dash in 1920i think woodrow wilson also was touting hoover -- early on. and so he was a great man, the democrats would have liked to have had it dwight d. eisenhower in 1950 they would have loved to have had herbert hoover are many would have in 1920. so the relationship with republican party wasn't always so clear. in bush's case he certainly is a lifelong republican what was born to a position connecticut new england party, he then moves to west and south with his party. he never really becomes a post cold water reagan republican and the soul of seoul. so his relationship to the party of his time was rather curious. .. never discussed his view on any of the issues of president harris. well, tyler becomes president and suddenly finds himself confronted with a wade agenda which he doesn't fully subscribed to. so he begins to veto all of the bills won created by his arch rivals, senator henry clay of kentucky. when for the second time, tyler the toes, they called him mr. veto. [laughter] when he vetoed the bill to recharger i guess it is the third bank of

it was woodrow wilson the following president who did it. so it wasn't even pinchot who did it. pinchot, because san francisco had been destroyed by earthquake in 1906 and they felt they needed the water to be rebuilt. he felt sorry for san francisco. but you can read and pinchot diaries. by the way, he was roosevelt's top speechwriter. so most of the speeches at roosevelt gave came from the pin of gifford pinchot. if you read those pages and to be those diary entries, you can't help but to see this man was committed to the american wild ask mir ever was. but he lost his place in history. so thank you, and i will take a few questions from you all. [applause] >> you have to live up to missoula's reputation, and being inquisitive. >> how long did you research this because the question was how did i research this. it was mostly glorious and really for me terrific research that i spent a lot of time here in missoula and archives where they have a tag is record of this fire. it was very well for rabbi the way. and i covered mount saint helens, the russian, was it 1980? yes. and it wa

now listen to woodrow wilson. the interests of allÑi nations e çóalso our own.ld war içóñr "peace without victory." sound familiar? he said there must not be a balance of power but a community of power, and organized and common peace founded on the public opinion of the world. this fits with the final defining characteristic of president obama. he is what i have called the first post-american president. [applause] çónow let us be clear. let us be clear. he is not an american. he is not anti-american. he is post-american, beyond all that patriotism stuff. i think fundamentally the president does not believe in american exception allows them. this is a subject that can go on for a while, butçó we have believed in the exceptional as some of america from the founding. john winthrop of the plymouth bay colony said we must consider ourselves a city upon a hill. ronald reagan amended that to say a shining city on a hill. some have called it the new jerusalem. but we have seen ourselves that way for a long time. you know what? so have many foreign analysts. the first to

chance to pick the portraits they want to have fumbles and one of the portraits nixon picked was woodrow wilson because he considered himself an international as wilson had been but he absolutely did not believe in willson's basic open covenant arrived. he thought this was the book. >> there's another point here. if you're fighting the war back in vietnam who do you think the enemy was it was in the chinese? in many ways, and i think it was bill buckley who discarded this week to read it was as if roosevelt had gone to berlin and toasted hitler in the middle of world war ii. that is how strongly it was perceived by those in the military who were giving their lives to see the commander in chief toasting him. we might have a different view of that but it's understandable that you could understand somebody who put their life on the line how they might interpret that and i think buckley struck a nerve when he said that. >> there's a lot of things in the book that show how certain items such as the party platform are all there but ignored. would you advise journalists now who were working at foreign

woodrow wilson's deteriorating health in the last half of this term. he was incompetence. franklin roosevelt, there's a new book coming out, some neurologist called me yesterday about this. he claims roosevelt had cancer, that he had this hardening of the arteries in the brain. he never should have run again in 1944 and of course the revelations in my book about john kennedy, in which i got into the medical records and found out how many medical problems he had in the 1950's. so much so that he was hospitalized nine times, once for 19 days and this was all hidden from the public. we have had a series of episodes in which presidents have hidden many medical problems of from the public. i am very warm advocate of the idea that we should know about their medical histories. they have got their finger on the nuclear button. it is very important that peeno as much as we can, and so i think jim's point, it really raises a red flag, but who knows if we will ever find out about it? getting into the kennedy medical records, they had been sitting there for 40 years and i applied and

let's head south on the woodrow wilson bridge. crews are out pre-treating the road weighs so give them a wide berth and let them prepare the roads for our benefit. >> thanks. our time is 5:41. 35 degrees. coming up, they got out just in time. >> an update on tai shan's big trip to china, plus metro says it's going to be ready for the snow but teague has a message for ridesers. that's coming up. >> a whole lot of shoppers are disappointed. one store got so crowded they turn people away. >> they turned us away. i need food. >>> 5:45 is our time. 35 degrees. taking a live look out at ronald reagan washing closings and ear dismissals to tell you about in anticipation of this big winter storm headed our way. first an alert for government workers, the federal government will now be operating understand an aunt scheduled leave policy today with a four hour early dismissal i effect. d.c. public schools will close at noon today. >> in maryland prince george's county schools are closing three hours early today, montgomery county schools are

-- franklin roosevelt, george washington, thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, teddy roosevelt, woodrow wilsonruman. leaving aside james k. polk, all of these men were to term presidents or got themselves elected after the death of their predecessor, making their case to the voters that they deserve to retain their jobs. mr. bolick can anticipate a one- term fate if he gets crossed with the citizens. if that happens, it is not likely that he will be remembered in the future as a great chief executive. frank, md., good morning. caller: republicans calling in about obama, and i am disappointed. but i am not surprised at all at "the new york times" peace -- piece. i thing that any person in this country, for the democratic party or republican party, loves this country. you have to have your hands clean. i am so proud to be from the section of maryland abrams is from, even though she is new. i have high hopes for her. she is pressing down on people through it -- that are faced with inequalities. thank you. host: patti, minneapolis. caller: thank you. good morning. first of all, barack obama declin

>> we jump on the subway and go to see the woodrow wilson house and he was the president when provision went into effect in 1920. >> this was a portion of the book tv program. you can view the entire program and many other booktv programs online. go to booktv.org, type the name of the author or the book in the upper left-hand corner of the page. select the watch link. now you can view the entire program. you might also explore the recently on book tv box were the featured video box to find recent and featured programs. >>> we are at west virginia university in morgantown west virginia with john temple, author of "the last full year the fight to save death row inmates be quote mr. temple by don't you start by telling about the main characters, ken rowes and boe jones? >> they are to and about the same age, they live in north carolina boe jones was from the plan county north carolina convicted of murder in 1993 for a murder that occurred in 1987 and he was sentenced to death and spent i believe 13 years on death row. ken rowes is the lawyer who in 1997 took on his case shortly before boe

the answer, woodrow wilson. >> aflac. >>> i can at least tell you that there was a premarket trade ofes at $18.98 on comcast. after reporting numbers that were well above expectations. in fact, more than double year ago earnings due to solid growth in subscriptions and a year ago writedown. 33 cents was well above expectations. it's $955 million. it does include a tax benefit of 4 cents a share. so if you back that out, it would be 29 cents. but it also -- last year's results also included a writedown of $600 million. so if you exclude some of those things, it's still above. and the top line rose 2.9% from last year. 200 shares, maybe not that much to get excited about. but, you know, someone paid that. we'll see. >> one vote of confidence. >> we'll see where it opens when it does. joining us for the next two hours to give us his thoughts on banking reform and many other issues is steven rosenberg, ceo of graystone and company, one of the top leaders in fha mortgage originations and also owns graystone bank. good morning. >> good morning, joe. how are you? >> i'm good. it's great to h

lincoln followed by washington and fdr, and the next with fear or roosevelt and jefferson and woodrow wilsoner problem with canada, with great britain peacefully up in the pacific northwest and then of course had the device of war with mexico but he won it quickly -- divisive war with mexico but he won it quickly. he was a man of zeal, manifest destiny helped fuel the movement westward to california in the 19th century. host: if any of our viewers want to find the colorado -- the myth -- fine but column -- find the ñ ççi want to play you a bit oft he had to say about serving as a one-term or two-term president and get your response. them ever in the middle of all of this, do you think maybe one term is enough? [laughter] çç>>çi]i] you know, i would t the one thing i am clear about is i would rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. and i believe that. there is a tendency in washington to think that our job officials is to get reelected. that is not our job description. our job description is to solve problems and to help people. t(ñrççthati]ç is

lincoln followed by washington and fdr, and the next with fear or roosevelt and jefferson and woodrow wilsonart. he saw the border problem with canada, with great britain peacefully up in the pacific northwest and then of course had the device of war with mexico but he won it quickly -- divisive war with mexico but he won it quickly. he was a man of zeal, manifest destiny helped fuel the movement westward to california in the 19th century. host: if any of our viewers want to find the colorado -- the myth -- fine but column -- find the ñ ççi want to play you a bit oft he had to say about serving as a one-term or two-term president and get your response. them ever in the middle of all of this, do you think maybe one term is enough? [laughter] çç>>çi]i] you know, i would t the one thing i am clear about is i would rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president. and i believe that. there is a tendency in washington to think that our job officials is to get reelected. that is not our job description. our job description is to solve problems and to help people.

woodrow wilson once said, if you want to make enemies, try to change something.d lord knows he was right. [laughter] >> but it is worthy. it's worthy. because we are together building the foundation for a better, stronger commonwealth. and i ask you, don't just take my word for it. here are some facts. for the first time in 20 years, more people are moving into our state than are moving out. business confidence has improved nine of the last 10 months, which means more investment and more jobs ahead. home sales are up for the fifth consecutive month, 59 percent in the month of november alone all three national rating agencies have affirmed the states aa credit rating and stable outlook for the future, expressly citing our successful management of this fiscal crisis. massachusetts is one of the few state in the country able to access the bond markets to fund our student loan program. we are first in the nation in student achievement for the third straight year, and first in the nation in health care coverage for our residents, with over 97% insured. [applause] >> o

john's a graduate of princeton woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs, so he's got the full range of public policy and international law right from the educational background. and he has a masters in foreign affairs, also from the university of virginia, in addition to his law degree from harvard law school. right now john is an adjunct senior fellow in international law at the council on foreign relations, which many of you may be involved in. and he's directing a project on international justice there. so, i think we have two very eminent gentlemen to hear from and, without further ado, i'll let you hear from harold. we will have a question and answer session after they speak. this is being taped by cspan and so you -- i would ask that you not ask your questions until you have a microphone and then say your name and state your affiliation. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. i'm very grateful to the law firm of arnold and porter with all of my friends here, the d. c. bar, the american society for sponsoring this event. i have been the legal adviser now for about

just think of what woodrow wilson stood for. he stood for world government. he wanted an early united nations, league of nations. the conservative republicans stood up against it. how many are saying none of you belong to the united nations? [applauding] [cheering] 1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave as the income-tax, the 16th amendment, and the irs. what is wrong with getting rid of the income tax and the 16th amendment? i think it would be a great idea. [cheering] and, of course, i am already taking a position on a monetary position. we should just end the ban. [chanting] >> there other things that went on during the wilson administration, foreign policy change. his goal was to save democracy. something we should have never gotten into. we as conservative have accepted this principle that it is our moral and legal constitutional responsibility to engage ourselves and make the world safe for democracy. i don't think it is possible. as a matter of fact if you think back just a short time ago to the year 2000 when george bush was running, guess what he ra

>> personally, nixon reminds me of woodrow wilson, whom i also wrote about, who simply couldn't follow advice even though he knew he ought to. so that's one aspect of it. the problem with nixon's goals when he came into office, his foreign policy goal -- which were very interesting and good -- was that because of his own history, he felt that he had to achieve these by secrecy. there's a wonderful transcription of a briefing that nixon gave to the white house staff shortly after the -- we're going to china announcement, that was reproduced in the book in part in which he basically says this could not have been achieved without secrecy. had we had a free and open discussion about it. the right wing and everybody else would have come down upon me and we never would have got on the point of going china. and you can believe that or disbelieve that, but he certainly believed it. and also believed that in terms of what it was he wanted to do with the soviet union and how to deal with the vietnam war. one of the things that we point out in this book, it's not quit a revelation because some in