you know, we associate woodrow wilson with prohibition. but as a constitutional amendment, wilson really played no large role in its promotion, and in fact, wilson vetoed the act. it passed over his veto and the act was what meant -- led to the -- how the amendment would be enforced. so wilson said there was no prohibition. there was no temperance in the prohibition amendment. he was certainly in favor of temperance but not a strict prohibition. this leads us into the kitchen here. waiter brought the flood up to the second floor. sort of inconvenient to have a kitchen below your dining room, but indeed very much as practiced in the time, we see an old icebox. we also know from that tax inventory that the wilsons also had an electric refrigerator. here are some of mrs. wilson's grandmother's china. a full set of flow blue porcelain. >> we have the servant call box. again it was a very modern house. it ran very efficiently. and as you can see, a servant could be called from anywhere in the house. the nurse's room, the dining room, the bell wo

. >>> this tour of the woodrow wilson house was part one of a two-part program. you can learn more about woodrow wilson at woodrowwilsonhouse.org. >>> this week on the civil war, actor steven lang portrays battle of gettysburg lieutenant -- mr. lang presents lieutenant purman as if he were speaking in 1913 on the 50th anniversary of the battle of get business burg. after the performance, mr. lang takes questions about his career as an actor playing roles from various military eras. the event was part of the lincoln forum symposium in gettysburg, pennsylvania, and vice-chair harold holzer provides introductory remarks. this is about an hour. >>> may i have your attention, please. >> thank you, everett. that's what we needed. good morning, everyone. i'm harold holzer, vice-chairman of the lincoln forum. and we welcome you this morning to what promises to be an extraordinary program. as you all know from your printed programs, what we're going to hear this morning is something entitled "beyond glory." and before we begin, i wanted to acknowledge and introduce to you

director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson center, haleh esfandiari. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. dr. haleh esfandiari, welcome to our program. >> thank you for having me. >> hinojosa: so, in the fall of 2007... no, in the spring of 2007, suddenly i go to my computer and i start seeing these emails that say, "there is an iranian-american academic who is being held in a tehran prison. do everything that y can to try to get her out." and of course i started sending that to many people, and i received it from women's groups, from journalist groups, from human rights groups. i don't remember any of those emails saying that haleh esfandiari was a grandmother who was detained. how did you survive? you were 105 days in solitary confinement. >> it was very tough, maria, but i am a very disciplined person. and being 67 years old and a student of iran, having studied carefully, a lifetime, iran, i knew how to handle my interrogators, and i knew how to make it possible for myself to survive under those very difficult and dire conditions, both physical

days later, his cell phone was found on the woodrow wilson bridge. then his car abandoned in prince george's county. after an anonymous tip, investigators discovered harris' body from a well in fort washington. >>> in sports, a tough night for the washington wizards. they fell to the chicago bulls 98-88. chicago's derek rose scored a season-high 35 points. more bad news for the wizards. >>> the washington auto show is in town. if you are looking for a new car, you are in look. the auto industry apparently making a comeback. that means good deals for consumers. melanie alnwick has details. >> reporter: over two massive showroom floors at the washington convention center, car buyers and lookers are checking out the new models. >> definitely a caddy. we appreciate the jeep. my wife likes that. >> i appreciate the jeep. >> reporter: 2011 was a good year for auto manufacturers as consumers felt more confident to make large purchases. >> i was waiting to graduate and get my first car. >> reporter: 2012 is expected to build on that success. industry economi

it was in the words of president woodrow wilson, no ordinary celebration.t must have been special indeed because the president canceled a much needed vacation in new hampshire to be there himself. after all, lincoln had gone there once, too, if wilson refused, people might think him an unsympathetic southerner. but celebration wasn't quite the right description. it was more of a commemoration. more of a reunion. extraordinary, it surely was. on july 1st, 1863, an astounding 53,407 living veterans of the battle of gettysburg, on july 1st, 1913 -- that is. [ laughter ] '63 wouldn't have been that amazing. [ laughter ] 53,407 living veterans of the battle of gettysburg, northern and southern alike. many dressed in faded and tattered original uniforms returned to this village for the 50th anniversary of the largest battle that ever shocked and awed the american landscape. now, the current congress may have no funds for a civil war ses quatennial on a scale that congress found funds in appropriation to house these old men. the states kicked in nearly $2 million

at the beginning of 1920 when the democrats were becoming desperate and woodrow wilson was ill and the democrats were looking for someone to run for president and save their party and run as wilson's successor, roosevelt wrote to a mutual friend, hugh gibson the dib lo mat, that i wish we could make hoover president of the united states, there could not be a better one. and in research i've done on the hoover/roosevelt relationship, i've become convinced that roosevelt secretly wanted to be hoover's running mate, running as democrat in 1920. well, it didn't quite turn out that way. but they remained friendly during the 1920s -- >> host: did that letter surface, for example, in the 1932 campaign? did people -- in today's political climate, you can imagine what an uproar something like that would create. do you know if it -- >> guest: i don't recall that the letter surfaced, but there were some articles about the fact that they had been friendly in world war i, and neither man wanted to emphasize the fact particularly in 1932. they had been friendly in a somewhat distant fashion because

for example, the marvelous and unique sympathetic account of woodrow wilson. the only time a president has written a biography of another president. the ordeal of woodrow wilson based upon their shared experiences. >> well, at one point he was writing several books simultaneously, including this massive one. his research assistant, a man named arthur kemp, said it seemed sometimes we were writing eight, ten, 12 books at once. this is the way he worked. so hoover had fantastic energy and mental discipline to do this. >> wrote them all himself. how did he do the research? this is a hugely documented work of history. who collected all of that? >> well, first he wrote everything by hand, by pencil. everything. and then it would be type up and then he would revise the typed script and revise it again, and so on, and eventually it would get to point where he would send it off to the printer in galeys and that was an expensive proposition, i'm sure. he wanted to see how it looked. so his writing practice was remarkable in its own right. now, how did he assemble mater

nibble the graduated income tax that we g under woodrow wilson. i think it's the foundation stone of all these programs to strengthen the united states. it means that the more you make, the higher your tax rate goes and that's the only fair way to do it. >> rose: the book is called "what it means to be a democrat." so great to see you. i thank you for coming. >> a pleasure to be with you. captioning sponsored by se communications captioned by media access group at wgbh cess.wgbh.org

in the area of scholarship, his master's and doctorate degrees from the woodrow wilson school of publice led the development of our current counterinsurgency manual reflect the marvelous intelligence and insight he brings to bear on any issue. his integrity is unimpeachable. through his over 37 years of military is service, remarkably, director petraeus has held six general officer commands, five as combat commands. he did this in bosnia, he did it with the 101st air assault division in iraq, he served as commander of the multi-national force iraq leading the surge, he served as centcom commander and, finally, as the dual-headed commander of the international security assistant force commander of u.s. forces afghanistan. our guest speaker's name is often mentioned in the same sentence with most of our revered leaders of the past; generals washington, grant, pershing, macarthur and eisenhower for the contributions he has made in the development of doctrine, development of leaders and his leadership in the battlefield. most recently, president obama has called upon him to serve as the dir

remember eisenhower's cummerbund, woodrow wilson's rainbow suspenders and theodore wilson's tube top. (laughter) so will it be santor runnel? only the people of iowa can say for sure. unfortunately, after nine months, thousands of campaign appearances, since different front-runners and $16 million in campaign spending 43% of iowa voters haven't made a final decision and those who have decided said they could change their minds. so to get their answers, let's go live to an actual iowa republican caucus goer... or cawcation joining us via satellite from dubuque, iowa, please welcome tom cherney, thank you for joining us, mr. cherney. (cheers and applause) you are a registered republican voter from iowa, correct? >> uh-huh. >> stephen: so who are you supporting tonight? >> i don't know. >> well, mr. cherney, some say romney is the candidate of destiny. will you be caucusing for him? >> ooh, um... well... (laughter). >> stephen: how about ron paul? very fashion gnat following there. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. ooh! >> stephen: newt gingrich. >> ugh. ugh. hmm. >> stephen: rick perry. >> huh? >> s

days later, his cell phone was found on the woodrow wilson bridge. his car was discovered abandoned in prince george's county. after an anonymous tip last week investigators recovered harris' body from a well in fort washington. the 53-year-old was a community activist. the alexandria mayor was a long time friend. >> i've never known him to be associated with bad people. >> there is now a $38,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this case. >>> did you feel a little shaking around 6:30 last night perhaps? well, five months after last year's east coast earthquake, we are still getting aftershocks. last night, we had another one. it was one of the strongest so far. the magnitude 3.2 hit about 6:39:00 p.m. actually. the epicenter was five miles south of louisa, virginia. let's just keep them small. >> small and far away. >>> coming up up next, first lady michelle obama is pushing for i think chas at the workplace that could help families of service members be with their loved ones. >>> pricing new details about the moments leading up to the

. >> for more on this as well as the international response, i spoke with aaron from the woodrow wilson institute. we had strong words coming out from the ambassador. does america have more than language in its arsenal to use at this point? >> you know, 90% of success in life is showing up at the right time, and now is a time for a mobilize international consensus. i am not sure the results will be needed, but the impact will be greater, and if the russians and chinese will cooperate, on sanctions, for example, and it is coming at a good time, because you have got massive defections, and you have the syrian army inflicting serious punishment on the regime. >> but at the same time, you have the syrian government taking back areas that they had taken. >> and that will go on, but i think it is fair to say that the central government in damascus has lost control of the government. you will see that continue, there is no question, and by the way, this is not libya, where you can create no-fly zones and no derides as. the cost will be considerable. -- and no drive zones. the cost will be cons

and harris' phone was found later that day on the woodrow wilson bridge. harris' car, meanwhile, was found on october 11 in prince georges county. the motive for the murder was robbery, but not giving any details about that robbery, siting the extremely active on going investigation. >> we work night and day with our partners in alexandria to identify the suspect. we have identified one. again, i want to stress we have a full written and verbal confession and we recovered what we believe to be the murder weapon and the murder weapon is a firearm. >> prince georges county police say they expect several more people soon. >> they move fast on this one, thank you. >>> police are looking for the vandals who targeted a mosque over the weekend. as peggy fox reports, it was so badly damaged, some wanted investigated as a hate crime. >> i'm peggy fox where fairfax county police say if they find the vandals who hit this mosque and learn they did it to target islam, it could be a hate crime. >> it could be somebody who really -- they made it to look like it. >> it wa

the cell phone found on the woodrow wilson bridge, the car in prince georges county. thursday, they got an anonymous call telling them they have something in a well in an abandoned house in fort washington and that is when they started digging. they recovered the body on saturday when he disappeared. police released the surveillance video of someone using harris' atm card. there is an award for whoever leading them to the killer. >>> two people died in northeast over the weekend. the 19-year-olded thatius howard and 18-year-old william adams, the fourth inside a van and police believe it was a drive-by shooting. they were pursuing the van when they hit a tree and slammed into another police cruiser at the 400 block of taylor street. they were hurt and expected to recover. a third suspect in the van was ejected and he was hospitalized in critical condition. >>> just ahead here on the news edge at 6. looking for a new car? you in luck. the auto show is back. the time to buy is now. >>> and welcome to the jungle. guns and roses coming to the fillmore in silver spring nex

he found precisely the right words to restore theodore roosevelt's reputation, reduce woodrow wilson'srtcomings as well as the excellences of the american left. he then found the words to capture his own life in a compelling narrative whose art reaches from new york to hand over to harvard to south pacific to harvard again and to yale. whether his words flowed onto the page or out over the roads of wrapped students in the law school auditorium they were always cogent and authoritative without being authoritarian and never short of perfect in pitch. if they were spoken, especially from the lecture platform, they pealed forth in that unforgettably resonant voice which surprised many listeners as some kind of miraculous emanation from that compact sailor's body. john was not simply a great historian and magical teacher, he was an educator in the fullest sense of the word. a first citizen of the republic of learning. to countless students he gave time and attention well beyond the call of duty. to yale he gave legendary service as department chair and librarian. to harvard nine eventful ye

sometimes they are figures that things so unlikely as scapegoats glenn beck after all finally named woodrow wilson as the the father progressivism and progressivism led to everything else that was wrong in the united states fairly. early roosevelt it's right but the scapegoat state there's a kind of method in there lunacy and the method is to turn groups or individuals who have been champions. of rights of ordinary people the political rights or economic rights of ordinary people i think that's why i was named and i don't think it's accidental that identified the sort of the. the damning article which was called the weight of the poor strategy to end poverty as an article that laid out a plan for a campaign to reform welfare it was a campaign to help people get their rights under the welfare system now that's and they called it a campaign or a blueprint to bring down capitalism which of course it was now there was a very modest compared to their description of it if it's actually not so modest to reform welfare it's a hard thing to do. it was a lease of reform project which they described as a pro

here's a look at the woodrow wilson bridge. not seeing any issues. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> the nba's defending champs, the dallas mavericks, will make the customary trip to the white house this morning to meet the president. not without some controversy. the mavericks' outspoken owner, mark cuban, says the league was "stupid, dumb, or worse," for not scheduling a game for his team in d.c. this year which would have made it easier for him team to go to the white house. instead he says the team had to schedule the trip themselves. the nba argues that even if they scheduled the mavericks to play the wizards, it may not have meant the president would have been able to meet with the champs. >>> maybe cuban wants the mavericks to play the wizards now because he think it would be a guaranteed win. the team still looking for the first win of the season after the loss to the timberwolves last night. ouch. they've dropped to 0-8, the worst start to a season in franchise history. and half of those games the team has lost by 18 points or more. d

we are taking a live look at the woodrow wilson bridge this morning t will be another cold one out there this morning, folks. definitely opportunity seat warmers on. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. welcome to fox 5 morning news. let's say hello to tucker barnes to get the latest on the weather. definitely still cold out. >> yes, in the 30s. things are kind of quiet today before we get our next chance of wintry mix later tonight and tomorrow. you can see that things have quieted down. we did have one or two flurries to the north and west but skies are clearing out. we should be in for sunshine for the first part of your day. temperature right now at reagan national is 36 degrees. humidity, 59%. winds are out of the north and west at five miles per hour. it tells us that frontal system has passed. here is your forecast for today. chilly conditions expected. highs, you are pretty much looking at them in the mid-30s. temperatures will be critical as we await the push of our next storm system. details in just a minute. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a police standoff is under way right no th

days later his cell phone was found on woodrow wilson bridge, then his car appearedded in prince george's county. thursday police got a call telling them they might find something in an abandoned well in ft. washington. after lowering cameras into the well they brought in diggers. >> fortunately the dirt, the material worked on our side. it was good material, not cave in type of material. so that worked for to us create a precise hole. other than that we just very carefully. >> investigators recovered harris' body saturday. back when he disappeared police released surveillance video of someone using his atm card. there's a $38,000 reward for information leading to the killer. >>> developing story in mcpherson, park police cracking down on a law that says protesters can't sleep in tents in the park. occupy protesters say they'll sleep in shifts tonight and yell to wake up other demonstrators if the police do show up. fox 5's will thomas live there now. reporter: this will be the first night demonstrators will test the no camping ban. it's very clear if you have a tent like one of these, it

the beginnings of the imperial presidency, i would refer them to look at teddy roosevelt and woodrow wilson before they immediately jump to fdr who used more power directly without congressional approval than did fdr. >> we have a very short amount of time left, so we'll take one final question from hyde park. your name and where you're from? >> i'm francis wyman, from boston college. my question, one of the panelists knows his adore luben, the white house adviser. i wonder if you can offer insights into luben on fdr, bill donovan and any of the other insiders? >> for donovan, he was -- actually, kind of a last-minute savior for him. in the early 1945, when donovan is trying to think of -- or he has a post-war cia in mind, and wants to form it, he put together a plan and shopped it with the white house and lobbied the white house to go for something like this. harry hopkins was very cool to the idea. j. edgar hoover who had picked up intelligence on this was going bananas over it and doing everything he could to sabotage donovan's idea. luben thought highly of donovan, thought he had done s

begin setting interest rates i start the question by playing a short clip of him speaking at the woodrow wilson astute about just that the end of the criticisms of the greenspan said it was after they lowered the knobbly interest rate to one percent creating a strongly negative real interest rate in two thousand and three they held that there too long that's probably right i consider it a forgivable or a but it's probably. so the point i wanted to make with that is i i agree with you i think was probably the wrong idea to have a rate that low but isn't that really a problem the fact that neither i nor you nor anyone really knows what the interest rate should be and i say that because we have we have that it with prices and talking a lot about that it's a huge problem i mean. it would be a better world if the people at the federal reserve had perfect foresight and had a perfect model of how the economy works so they knew exactly what to do at exactly what moment that's a fantasy now what it means is they should try to keep learning learn from experience try to improve their forecasting methods t

the next day, investigators found his cell phone on the woodrow wilson bridge. they also learned an unidentified man had used harris' bank card in alexandria. days later, his car was found near fort washington and last week, police found harris' body at the bottom of a well after receiving an anonymous tip. no word yet on a suspect or motive but police have scheduled a news conference to later on this morning. >>> a silver spring man who called police saturday and said his wife was dead is now charged with her death. henry hutchins told police his wife was dead in their bedroom. police classified her injuries at trauma to the upper body. hutchins was charged and is being held without bond. >>> ate massive house near in glendale, maryland. -- a massive house fire in glen dealed maryland. the flames were reported in the single family home just before 2:30 sunday morning. -- a massive house fire in glendale, maryland. the fire was caused by some sort of electrical problem. >>> just one full day of campaigning left until the pivotal florida primary. the two top cand

a great admirer of woodrow wilson. when presidents are arrogant, they get themselves into big trouble, when democrat or republican. wilson was a brilliant man, but a bill arrogant, and refused to compromise. he thought he knew what he was doing as a progressive democrat, refused to really include republican representation on some of the most critical policies that the united states had ever engaged in. namely, of course, the creation of this new institution called the league of nations. this is an enormously important institution. and by ignoring republican representation with respect to his delegation to go to paris at the paris peace conference after world war i, but not including republicans, and then by refusing to compromise with the republican opposition, which wasn't just republican, by the way. there were democratic opposition too to some of the provisions of the treaty of versailles, he took an all or nothing attitude and as a consequence the united states never joined the league of nations and wilson's great

progressive era after the robber barons of the late eighteenth hundreds and not only democrat woodrow wilson before him republican teddy roosevelt looked around and saw wealth disparities of this aeration the environment and built and was a part of the progressive movement which created not only political change but built the city club movement in cities all across this country so the political machines were operating cities for their own benefit i think that we have to look at institution building and political movement building as well as looking in the mirror and think about how we can change our own participation habits yeah well exactly well said and i want to talk about the bus project read a time is there a quick website you can shoot for people to check that out yeah website i'm jefferson smith that i'm also on facebook and twitter i think of jefferson decent there the bus project his bus project out oh argy you could also just google bus project oregon bus project bus federation it's good stuff people can check it out great check it out say represent or you say representative jeffer

in october, his cell phone was found on the woodrow bridge and then his car found on wilson road and led to speculation on that. the police said they are not ruling anything out but cannot disqualify or say at this point exactly who was at the bottom of the well. once they get to the body, expected to happen sometime this weekend, perhaps sunday evening, detectives get in and start forensic work. 0 that could take another day. positive identification, speculation who that could be at the bottom of the rule, not ruling anything out but cannot say definitively at this point. we'll keep you posted. for now, we are live in washington. >> definitely one we will be following some time. thank you. >>> now to the morning's other big story. a maryland woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after killing her co-worker. a judge certaintied brittany norwood to prison without the possibility of parole. she was convicted of killing jayna murray, her co-worker and tried to cover it up. they accepted plea agreements that would have spared the f family the details. i asked her father why the

we'll then return for more from the woodrow wilson center. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., january 17, 2012. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable kirsten e. gillibrand, a senator from the state of new york, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: daniel k. inouye, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on friday, january 20, 2012. >> the senate gaveling out after a quick pro forma session. one more pro forma on friday. senates returning from their holiday break for legislative business monday, january 23rd. and we are back now live to the woodrow wilson center for this forum on the work of homeland security. >> you need to be able to pick up the phone and call some police chief in a southeast asian country and say i need you to do this for me tomorrow, and they need to resp

nothing slippery out in the freezing precipitation on the roadways, but taking a law school at the woodrow wilson bridge, you can see damage is done on the interstate. very slow traffic going into virginia on the inner loop and into the maryland area and starting to form up on the left shoulder there. slippery conditions. jumping up toward the american legion bridge, because of the damp conditions and everybody taking it easy. moving over to prince george's county, you'll find the extensive delays mainly on the inner loop of the capital beltway, leaving virginia and silver spring winding through college park and out toward the bowie area on the west side. that is the latest on the roads on the surprise storm here anita, back to you. >>> tonight montgomery county police are struggling to stop a rash of burglaries. ruth leshan is live in bethesda, which has been especially hard hit. bruce? >> reporter: anita, new year's saw seven burglaries in just one night in this one neighborhood behind bethesda, chef have i chase high school and police are going to have a meeting tomorrow night to try and expla

the next day police found harris' discarded cell phone on the woodrow wilson bridge. they also learned an unidentified man used harris' bank card and a money machine in alexandria. those discoveries led police and friends to believe harris was in danger. days later his automobile was found near fort washington. police received a telephone tip a few days ago that a human body was at the bottom of a well near an abandoned house in the washington section of the county. the body was recovered and today identified as harris. tonight, friends spoke of harris as friendly and helpful. >> we're going to miss him a lot. good people, you know? used to shovel my snow, because i'm older age now and have cancer. she can not do it either. used to come help us with the snow every year. >> reporter: harris is survived by his wife and a daughter, 20. his death has been ruled a homicide. but why he was killed and who was responsible are still to be determined. prince george's police have scheduled a news conference tomorrow morning to discuss the investigation. >> thank you. >>> deadly

his cellphone was also found on the woodrow wilson bridge. police are trying to track down his killer. we expect alexandria police and prince george's county police will come together for kettle bells conference at 10:30 this morning, where we could learn more about this case. brianne carter, abc 7 news. -- a joint news conference. >> a silver spring man charged in the death of the woman hw says was his wife will be back in court today for a bond hearing. police arrested henry natanz on sunday a day after he called to report carroll carter dead. the 62-year-old suffered trauma to our upper body. no word on a motive. -- police arrested henry hutchins. >> plan to overhaul the d.c. taxicab industry. this will require all cab companies to be the same color, install credit card readers, and provide more extensive training for drivers. mayor vincent gray supports the legislation. mark center employees have a new way to get to work. metro will be extending the leesburg pike limited service. that's in an effort to ease traffic congestion. it's expect

you may recall that when woodrow wilson was canned evening for the treaty of peace after the war that was going to end all wars, he suffered a massive stroke and was in bed for almost a year. edith wilson virtually ran the white house. in fact she did good she would lead anyone to see him. she would take messages from cabinet on her since she was so into the bedroom where -- where her husband was and then she was come out and say, the president wants you to do this. when in actuality, the only one who is deciding this edith wilson. not best truman and lady johnson actually ran their has-beens congressional or senate arial offices before they became president. and harry truman responded to criticism with running his office by saying that not only was she good, but she was cheap and you didn't have to pay her. even when he became president, best truman continued to add it all with his speeches. and you can be sure that she was giving him advice. of course, eleanor roosevelt had her agendas and rosalind carter is not the first presidential wife to want to sit in on cabinet meetings. she

from socialists although we had distinguished socialists, but from people like teddy roosevelt, woodrow wilsonted the market system to work but concentrated economic power is not the way to make it work. we should say thank you to perry and gingrich for starting it. >> if they can cloud the bain experience so mitt romney can't run on it, does he turn to running on his record as massachusetts governor? you almost would not know he was a former massachusetts governor from the way he campaigns now. i remember from living in massachusetts when he ran for governor there, that he ran not at all on bain, he ran on his turnaround of the salt lake city olympics. does he have the ability to pivot to other parts of his resume? >> he could run on his health care plan of massachusetts laid the basis for obamacare. i think he's not running on that. i'm surprised -- he talks about the olympics in his speeches, but they have a very clear strategy, this election is about the economy, unemployment is high, romney is the jobs guy, because he was in business and i don't see how they pivot off that. and i'm remind