what woodrow wilson said and what professor something i win help us understand in a more forward-going way helps drive america today, which is why i'm particularly pleased to have the author of this book "why wilson matters" which is a darn good book, to come here and to explain it to us, and then you can go buyure own copy. so, without further adieu, professor smith, the floor is yours. [applause] >> i think everything is working. i think jeff said -- kind of introduced me in a way who introduced me, my family, who i see here tonight. my sister and i grew up in the heart of the metroplex, and my friend, karen flesher-jones, who is here, used to go with me to -- lewan where the top of the north texas push. they closed in 1970. -- [inaudible] -- the lakewood ranch used to slip in because they would be drinking underage. karen and i were horrified because we were, too, but we thought were were to -- they were calling attention to a widespread problem near dallas. i'm glad to see that a few of you know these places. well, i have known tom for a long time, tom knock, who just kindly introd

unfortunately, woodrow wilson did not have as good a luck. he got back to find out his plan for world peace would not be signed by the u.s. government. oh, good, we're getting some advancement here. this is excellent. i wanted to show you this one picture. at one point, this is towards the end of the war. what happens is that the barracks, the offices in which the women are working are set afire by a german prisoner of war who knocks over an oil heater of some sort. the barracks go up in flames. the women actually had just moved their switch boards next door just a short distance away, but all of their belongings, their barracks are burned to the ground, and the building to which they are connecting the army, in which they are sending out commands to the army, which is arrayed on this vast front, the biggest killing battle in american history, more men died there than any other single battle in american history, and the general who commands this as the head of the signal corps says, if the army loses communications for an hour the whole war m

unfortunately, woodrow wilson did not have as good a luck. he got back only to find that his plan for world peace would not be signed by the u.s. government. good, we're getting advancement here. this is excellent. so i just wanted to show you this one picture. at one point, this is towards the end of the war. what happens is that the barracks, the offices in which the women are working, are set afire by a german prisoner of war who knocks over an oil the end of the war. what happens is that the barracks, the offices in which the women are working, are set afire by a german prisoner of war who knocks over an oil heater of some sort. the general who commands this as the head of the signal corps says, if the army loses communications for an hour the whole war machine will collapse. so these women are in this barracks that is filling up with smoke and finally the army comes and says, "okay, you have to get out." they pull their boards and the women go out the door. well, fortunately they managed to save the building and half an hour later the wo

and woodrow wilson sent that signal from the white house, the statue was put up. during the period from 1915 to 1922, more african-americans were lynched and killed, and more riots than any time in this nation's history. so when white supremacists go to that particular statue, they're saying, we are celebrating that we have a sympathizer in the white house. who endorses our policies like rolling back voting rights, like rolling back affirmative action. like deporting immigrants, like islamaphobia. that's the reason he you go to charlottesville. these were raised during a particular period of time and we have to know history to understand the strategy behind richard painter and the other folks. >> let's talk about what you're doing in georgia, stacey, representative abrams. you're supporting the idea of renuclear stone mountain confederate memorial carving. and you've gotten a response. you got one hate tweet. someone sent you a tweet saying, another crispy. clean up your black community first. that's the kind of response that you've gotten. is that emblematic to t

i am pleased to be here at the woodrow wilson center as a fellow. it has been a great experience the last several weeks and i look forward to another bit of research and fellowship here at the center. the work i am going to talk about today is a work in progress. this will eventually be a book-length manuscript describing the korean war and how it is remembered primarily in the united states, but north and south korea and some of the other countries that were major participants in the korean war. i think this topic is important because it helps us understand the current situation in east asia. how those countries get along, what is behind some of the tensions that continue to exist. the memory of the war, the public memory has impacted american policymakers and political decisions. i think it is important to understand the memory of the war in order to understand ourselves as americans and as a society. at this point, i see two themes developing through my work. one is that the public memory of the korean war has evolved over time and continues to e

what woodrow wilson said and what professor something i win help us understand in a more forward-going way helps drive america today, which is why i'm particularly pleased to have the author of this book "why wilson matters" which is a darn good book, to come here and to explain it to us, and then you can go buyure own copy. so, without further adieu, professor smith, the floor is

woodrow wilson, you could say was exempt. they understood it was something unique about the history of slavery and racism in this country that we had to cure this original sin. it was not cured by the civil war, as lincoln had hoped, because it was followed by 100 years of state-sponsored oppression. the quality of rights, this generation, the last 50 years have done a splendid job and redeeming itself. what trump is missing here is the uniqueness of white supremacy, kkk, nazism. yes, there were bad guys on both sides. that's not the point. this was instigated, instituted, the riots began over a nazi rio riot, nazi rally. the only killing here occurred by one of the pro-nazi people.

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he had been woodrow wilsons make economic advisor. wilson ran for election in 1912. wilson had hoped to appoint him attorney general. but the avalanche of anti-semitic opposition stalled that. wilson remained committed to appointing him. when he nominated him, he persevered and stood by him. la most of the opposition was anti-semitic in nature. but it was -- wilson had one very long by the way that president obama did not have when he nominated garland last year. merrick garland would have been the ninth jewish justice on the court. wilson had a democratic senate and there were several progressive republicans who crossed party lines to support brandeis. >> he served 23 years until 1939. he succeeded -- first of all, benjamin car doudoza was not on lifelong democrat but supported smith in the 1928 presidential election. so hoover transsend setranscend allegiance. most historians and biographers -- hoover didn't have the greatest presidency in american history and his appointment of cardoza is considered one of his truly great achievements of president. cardoza dies. h

would get the official reason of woodrow wilson these are words issued almost 100 years ago today after the 100 university in news is that very famous phrase how the president has given the country a purpose why we have to have selective service and military he says we are glad we see no false pretense in you have for these phrases before. so we have anything hard the to do. the privilege shows their way of life with obedience with self-determination mention have the right to choose and to there is only one type of government it would consider it doesn't over the people are left to their own devices they can choose another form like communism so this is woodrow wilson's of what the war is about but that question of what it seems and when it is why american soldiers are fighting what is the of horror all about? in fact, look at soldiers themselves we will see quite different for what the war represents to then it is interesting to me see how they match up here is the one great chance we could not pass it up no doubt for many of the men the great adventure of their lives understanding as

in here are awards from woodrow wilson. >> it is the war to end all wars? yeah.ething i try to do. we think we know history, we know some of these stories. sometimes what we think we know is wrong. the woodrow wilson thing is a much less arrogant and much more appealing, really a better comment. it is not far off. i have calvin coolidge in here and he is famous -- the quote business here is the of america is business. he said that any beach -- an ace reach. a speech. he went on to say that profit is not enough. it is a particularly unfortunate misquote because he was speaking to american newspaper editors. i've been known to be a schooled in other forms are you had -- forms. it is important in history to go to sources and to your own thinking. the: this is from april 30th 1975. it is an abc news report. a lot of people will remember this day. it is the american immigration of saigon. loads of men, women, and children were appearing during evacuation day. they were searched upon them -- arrival. weapons were thrown overboard. the navy was caught by surprise by how

i tell the people about woodrow wilson. with respect to the constitution there are things they didn't want to help the business sector during the great depression. he said in his speech that he relied on government. not to say it doesn't have a role because it does but they can be overdone. >> why did you withdraw from labor secretary confirmation?. >> i did not have enough votes from the senate. the recession and adverse reaction to the secretary of education ben chuck schumer identified me as the target and some other interview we can talk about the of fake news that was the data pretty bad it made those the fed you lose one more then the more the press could focus on these distorted -- distorted stories the press reported i did not file my government ethics papers there must be something wrong i was the first to file a new figure refers but the office of government ethics would not react to they sat of them so the of presses beating me up. i did not want the president to suffer a defeat of the senate floor with my name a

he had been woodrow wilson's main economic advisor since wilson ran for election in 1912. and wilson had hoped to appoint him attorney general, but the af lanch of anti-semiitic opposition for stalled that. but wilson remained committed to appointing him and when is he nominated him, he per certificate veered and stood by him. now, maybe later on we can talk about the opposition -- most of the opposition was anti-semiitic in nature, not because of his role in what was called the people's attorney. but it was -- and wilson had one advantage, by the way, that president obama did not have when he nominated merritt garland last year. by the way, some of you may know or most of may know that merritt garland would have been the ninth jewish justice on the court. wilson had a democratic senate, and there were several progressive republicans who crossed party lines so to speak to support brandeis. so that all helped. >> so let me just -- >> this is nas naturing, but i want to make sure that we at least in this introductory session we get through all eight of them. let's just give

q: the victim was a cheer captain and choir member at woodrow wilson high school. the same shooting but is expected to survive. from northeast washington, q mccray, abc 7 news. new tonight, all marine corps airplanes will be grounded 24 hours to focus on safety measures. this will happen at some point in the next two weeks. this after three marines were killed in the crash off the coast of australia. officials were review protocol to mature all units are safe and ready. nancy: a transgendered teen has dropped his appeal against the school board. he sued the district when the school board allowed hit -- refuse to allow him to use the boys bathroom. the federal appeals court said it was up to a lower court to determine if the case was still valid because he and graduate from high school. alison: we will be watching a situation tomorrow, emergency responders bracing for large crowds at a white nationalist rally in sure lovettsville. moving a is against statue of confederate general robert e charlottesville. the uva medical center is preparing to possibly treat people

woodrow wilson runs for president in 1916, for his second term, he was saying i am keeping you out of. he kept us out of war, it is one of the reasons he is reelected. then, in 1917, that decision is reversed. it is also time that women were involved in antiwar protests and do not have the right to vote. host: there was a lot of political organizing going on. isn't that correct? beverly: one of the things that a lot of people are measuring as the united states is debating whether or not to get involved in this war, is what it will mean for various causes. some women think that if we enter the war, we support the war effort, we show we can support our soldiers, that will be a good case for suffrage. other women say, the war will be a bloodbath. if we do this it will empower the most reactionary forces in the united states, therefore, all of these progressive reforms , including suffrage, are going to fall by the wayside. as it turns out, some things succeed, some things fail. there is a long debate. two in a half years of debate before the united states is actually in the war. host: we

. >> woodrow wilson's second wife. woodrow wilson is married. his first wife dies while he is in office. on her death bed she says to people around her, make sure he remarries. he marries this widow who runs a jewelry store in washington d.c., and they become very close very quickly, so much so that they say when woodrow wilson proposed to edith, she was so surprised she fell out of bed. [ laughter ] >> that's early 20th century humor. >> that's pretty good. >> i also have to add there are a lot of complexities in the wilson family. woodrow wilson has perhaps the most influential presidential son-in-law because his secretary of treasury, william macadoo, marries one of the wilson daughters. that's, you know, a son-in-law with a role in the white house. we can talk about that later. anyway, wilson has a series of strokes. and in those days, of course, you don't talk about those kinds of things. it is during the fight after the world war i which they called the great war, the treaty of versailles, the league of nations, and edith wilson doesn't wa

woodrow wilson. you had all these figures former secretaries of war, former generals and so on saying we are way behind militarily and if the war drags the united states in we better be ready. so this notion of preparedness catches on for sure. rts parades like the one we started with today and the focus for today in san francisco was a phenomena that happened all over. in other words how local communities demonstrated preparedness was part of in exercise. in other words having a parade that might demonstrate that community's patriotism andfer ver for the war. this is the preparedness day parade in washington, d.c. obviously you can see the capitol in the far distance there. you can make some sense that have. but these happened all over particular in the summer of 1916. kansas city has a preparedness parade mp saelts has one. the biggest one as you might imagine was in washington, d.c. you can see it playing out here. let me see a couple of things about it. it happened on june 14th, 1916, a little ov

in here are the words from woodrow wilson, you said he never said.is the war to end all wars? yeah. host: you found this on a number of occasions. carl: that is something i try to do. we think we know history, we know some of these stories. but some of what we think we know is wrong. now, the woodrow wilson thing is a much less arrogant and much more appealing, really a better comment. but it is not far off. but some presidents, i mean i have calvin coolidge in here and quote you willhe here is, "the business of america is business." but he knows profit is not enough. and he said the real business of america is altruism. it is a significant misquote. he was speaking at the press club. he was speaking to american newspaper editors. i've been known to be a schooled in other forms. about wrong quotes. i have a couple of examples like that, where it is important in history to go to the original sources and do your own thinking and to see what people really said. host: this is from april the 30, 1975. it is an abc news report. a lot of people will remembe

president wilson, woodrow wilson, even commissioned a special organization, it became known as the wilson commission, to investigate the case and come to some conclusions and their conclusions were basically that there had been some funny business with this trial, with some of these photos and some of the testimony and so on, and since 1917 it always seemed to come out more and more, more revelations about so-and-so had told this story on the stand, that wasn't true. this happened with the evidence, that wasn't true. so there started to be more and more kind of revelations. in the meantime mooney became this kind of cause celeb, he became very famous has this martyr for american labor. there was a huge defense fund and there is this continual fight made on his behalf for his exoneration, but remember, this is a process that lasts 20 plus years. it wasn't until the morning hours of january 7th, 1939 -- let me say that again, january 7th, 1939, remember, they went to jail in 1916 and 1917 -- that mooney now 56 years old is visited by the governor and mooney is taken to sacramento. the new g

woodrow wilson has perhaps the most influential presidential son-in-law because his secretary of treasury, william macadoo, marries one of the wilson daughters. that's, you know, a son-in-law with a role in the white house. we can talk about that later. anyway, wilson has a series of strokes, and in those days, of course, you don't talk about those kind of things. it is during the fight after the world war i which they called the great war, the treaty of versailles, the league of nations, and edith wilson doesn't want anyone to know. she ends up running the white house and running the wilson presidency and covering this up for a very long time, so much so you could almost say it is an act of treason or an act of loyalty. that we can leave to our philosopher friends to figure out. >> you know who else, verena howell davis, who was the fist and only first lady of the confederacy, when her and one of the most extraordinarily brilliant and interesting people i ever got to write about, when her husband was imprisoned by the union and put underground literally, in a cell that was -- there was n

this was -- again, going back to woodrow wilson, he wrote about this extensively. he believed that the way the government should be run wasn't by elect officials. it was bay bureaucracy, it was by professional inside the bureaucracy, who would execute the functions of government free from control by the political system, and i think we're seeing a lot of that. there's a lot going in the fourth branch of government that is beyond the control of the president, beyond the control of congress, more beyond the control of congress than pre president but certainly beyond the control of congress, and some of the president. look at the problems that president trump has had trying to get the regulatoriy state, theirself bureaucracy, under control. all of these leaks, things coming out that nobody wants to come out. you have policies going forward that shouldn't be going forward. it's become a behemoth and congress needed to get it under control. don't trust it. think it needs to be reduced and gotten under control so the people that we elect, the people who are responsive to

moving on to woodrow wilson, the 20th president of the united states, the item we have for woodrow wilson is a picnic set. what is interesting about this is this is one of the picnic sets he used when he was courting his second wife. his first wife had died during his first term. he was introduced to this woman less than a year after his wife had died. and they fell in love and would go on drives. they would take a picnic set like this and go out and picnic in a park in the washington, d.c., area or drive. he also had a second set for tea. they could do whatever they wanted to do that way. this continued into the presidency has well. here we are with warren g. harding. warren g. harding, what we have for hill is a set of golf clubs and a golf ball. an avid. harding was golfer and was introduced to golfing at the age of the p1 when he was in the senate. he had a 22 handicap and considered golfing under 100 to be a personal victory. he spent a lot of time golfing. the last time he golfed was two weeks before he died. like the social aspects of it but he also liked the game of it. he would a

one of their left wing progressive heroes woodrow wilson was a racist, as we know.ought in birth of the nation screen to the white house and called it history with a lightning rod that glamourized the paramilitary arm of the democrat party called the ku klux klan. but their progressive hero, their philosophical hero, even president obama's hero, i would think, his intellectual predecessor woodrow wilson also has the same kinds of fundamental problems with our constitution and with individual liberty and responsibility. david: well, and, you know, the kkk was like this with a democratic party. the last serving member of congress that i know of who was with the kkk was a democrat. senator bird. there's a long history of association. more democrats than republicans associate with it. but a lot of people when you read the website of stories that have been covering this, they say, well, this is a wild -- it's not happening beyond concerns about robert e lee. you're not going to see the destruction of other statues. but on the other hand, we had bill de blasio, the leftes

woodrow wilson revived it after it was shut down. it was an extension of the democratic party, with violence and terrorism. you group of ragtag guys, do not say they endorse donald trump because he wants to america great again, they have an actual history. it is closely connected with the history of the democratic party. rty. i guess i will leave it at that. host: you write that the fascist card is used to intimidate republicans. nazism, after all, is the ultimate form of hate and the association with it is the ultimate hate crime. it has turned the tables on the left. they are the ones who do bullying and intimidation tactics to subscribe to a fascist ideology. in a sentence before, you said: somebody that is the ultimate hate crime. do you fear that you are doing exactly what you condemn democrats for by saying they are the ones that are the fascists? >> late in the day, summertime. so you all get the good camper awards for coming in. thank you for being here on this friday. we have our special envoy to the global coalition for isi

he had been woodrow wilson's many economic adviser since wilson ran for election in 1912, and wilson was attorney general, but the avalanche of anti-semitic opposition foretold that, but wilson remained committed to appointing him and when he nominated him he persevered and stood by him and later on, maybe we can talk about the actual opposition that was most of the opposition was anti-semitic in nature and not because of his role of what was called the people's attorney, but it was -- and wilson had one advantage, by the way, that president trump did not have when he nominated merrick garland last year. probably most of you know that merrick garland would have been the ninth jewish justice on the court, but wilson had a democratic senate and there were several progressive republicans who crossed party lines, so to speak to support brandeis, so that all helped. >> so let me just -- this is fascinating, but i want to make sure that in this introductory section we get through all eight. >> yes. >> just give us the real, bare bones, thumbnail sketch. >> real, bare bones, thumbnail sketc

during the world war i and its tumultuous aftermath, hoover became a close associate of woodrow wilson, a participant in the paris peace conference and an internationally acclaimed humanitarian responsible for saving tens of millions of lives from the threat of famine and death. coolidge, in the same period, had quietly ascended what was called the escalator of elected office in massachusetts, where he was elected governor in 1918. hoover had supported the bull moose campaign. during this same period, coolidge had been a paragon of party irregularity and by 1920, a symbol of safety and conservatism. these distinctions in background and career expense were reinforced by profound differences in temperament. hoover was a veritable workaholic, filling his calendar with appointments from morning to night. coolidge had a much less robust constitution and was obliged to conserve his energy constantly. not surprisingly, the two men's approaches to government differed markedly. coolidge was devoid of controversy. secretary of commerce hoover's speeches tended to be policy statements, laden with

i am pleased to be here at the woodrow wilson center as a fellow. it has been a great experience the last several weeks and i look forward to another bit of research and fellowship here at the center.

in 2000 and 2010, she was public policy e fellowships with woodrow wilson international center for scholar necessary washington, d.c. professor curtain's first book prisoners and their world," was study of convict labor in the south. forthcoming book "reaching for power, barbara jordan and the olitics of race and sex in america," recounts the life of barbara jordan, offender of rights and first black woman elected to congress from a southern state. highlights jordan's key role in the reauthorization bill of campaigning for women and minority suffrage in texas. so, will give biography of the when he arrives. harvard kennedy school of overnment, harvard trained historians, the professor specializes in voting rights and election law history and working class history. before joining the harvard professor taught at duke, and mit. his acclaimed book "the right to vote, contested history of democracy in the us" details istory of the franchise from the american revolution to the 21st century. the book examines voting rights backdrop of social dynamics, including changes in economic development, re

he is hands-down the most recent -- racist president since woodrow wilson had private screenings of birth of a nation in the white house. heard with've telephone calls this morning, he has got a lot of enablers out there. his enablers are just like him, cut from the same factor -- fabric, the same hood and sheet. thank you for entertaining me. we will leave it there. washington times, it will be familiar if you follow his work in arizona. the headline -- deathey seeks overturn of the former sheriff hasn't officially asked but he is seeking a trial to remove his -- thrown out by an arizona court. he said he was subject to double jeopardy and should have been allowed, the jury trial was not treated by judge who used this select -- selectively. he was convicted by a judge in contempt of court after finding he willfully ignored another judge's order and stopped using -- to sniff out a legal immigrants. filings, the sheriff argued the 2011 order was not clear and under state law, he felt compelled to hold -- the story goes on the sheriff has not filed an official request for a pardon with the

. >>> woodrow wilson was in the white house. the post office had just started shipping by mail, and a half-gallon of milk cost just a quarter. 1918 was the last time a solar eclipse swept from coast to coast. and we have coverage tonight. we begin with weather. how does it look? >> no, we are looking at some decent conditions. i want to get zrstraight to the forecast. check it out. temperatures will be around 88 degrees. still pretty hot as we head throughout the day. now, clouds will be building throughout the day. so you sunshine. and then you'll see those clouds filling in. so we'll hit that peak at 2:42. so over all we're stillic loo g looking at decent conditions. coming up we'll have a look at the storms for you in our full week forecast. >>> 1 of the prime viewing spots for the eclipse is the air and space at the national mall. our darcy spencer is live outside the museum tonight where the excitement is mounting. >> reporter: and if you take a look here, this looks like a little capsule, perhaps but it's actually a little

woodrow wilson goes to the and says you have to pass the 19th amendment as a war measure, because he oesn't -- you know, there was talk in the streets not far from here going on over women's suffrage. we're hink that what seeing, in ways that are in a number of ways, is that in recent years, the nited states has been engaging in some prolonged wars without mobilization. we have a volunteer army and not draft, and without much in the citizen bilizing support, either. o it's a -- it is different from the historic pattern and worrisome. on your first question -- and to mary turn it over ellen. first question about kinds of things have made it possible to reverse periods to fight back, you know, there are shocking this ons to be asking in day and age. i think that, you know, there's bullet. magic people -- people start . anizing they also, you know, try to use the courts. and the other dynamic that though, and i think this is a dynamic that we're going to see, okay, and maybe we're in a couple ee it of places. you havethat --i mean, to organize and you have to use the court, however diff

president woodrow wilson revived the klan.w wilsoned the clan was a extension of democratic party. hey, they endorsed trump because they don't have a job and he wants to make america great again, no. klan has actual history and the history is closely connectedwa with the history of the democratic party. i guess i will leave it at that. >> host: up with section from your book, you write the facism card is used to intimidate conservatives and republicans with being feared. naziism is ultimate form of hate, association with it, the ultimate hate crime. in this book i turn the tables on the democratic left show they, not trump are the real fascists. they use nazi bullying and intimidation tactics to subscribe to full-blown fascist ideology. calling somebody is the ultimate hate crime.ngng do you fear are then doing exactly what you condemn democrats for, saying they are the ones who are the nazis, the fascists. >> guest: this is very fair question. i seem to turn the tables and i don't use naziism and facism as rhetorical javelins. most people who use the term have no idea what it mean