was basically offered, how shall we say it, a bribe, a consideration if he does not run against woodrow wilson, and that is to become chief justice of the supreme court. he says, no, wilson are never support me. and he's told by another supreme court justice, oh, no, he are, he want -- he will, he wants you on that court. so it's a very, very complex, interesting and machiavellian story. and we don't have the tapes like the nixon tapes, but we do have something remarkable for its time, we have transcripts of telephone conversations between the chicago conventions and t.r.'s subordinates, lieutenants there at sag a more hill where every word is taken down. so we really know what t.r. was saying to people in an unusual way, in privacy. and he's playing all sorts of crazy games. >> was he, did he want to be begged by the republicans to take, get the nomination? because it seemed like he really wanted it. he wasn't going to say, i want it. >> right. >> he wanted to be asked to do it and say, please, be our savior or something like that. >> one of his associates said that people think that t.r. had

grover did not like woodrow wilson. woodrow wilson was the president at that time. he did not allow his children and woodrow wilson stood -- wilson's to play together. that's the connection. he retired to princeton. >> the cleveland children also had a daughter that became a very -- became very famous. baby ruth. we have a candy bar named after her. tell us what you know about the family stories about baby ruth? >> the actual candy company contacted the cleveland family to put the images of the baby and francis on that. i have tons of political memorabilia the -- memorabilia that have been given away. they contacted the family to actually allow both images on the candy bar. sadly, like you said, ruth passed away. sadly, susan was pregnant with the child at the time. happened almost at the same time. she did not get a chance to say goodbye before she passed away. >> are very early childhood. >> they were afraid that the disease, diphtheria, would affect the child. she's on the candy bar in the never goes away. >> everybody thinks that candy bar was named after babe r

grover did not like woodrow wilson, and at the time woodrow wilson was the presidet and hes childrenre woodrow wilson's children to play together, because there was a little bit of a rift. so they did not play together. but that's the connection, he retired to princeton. talking aboutre the cleveland children, he had a daughter that became famous and who eventually passed away, baby ruth. we have a candy bar named after baby ruth. tell us the family stories about baby ruth. massee: so the actual candy company contacted the cleveland family to put the images of the baby and also frances on that. and we have tons of political memorabilia, tons of souvenirs that have been given away, and they actually contacted the family to actually allow both images on the candy bar. ruthadly, like you said, passed away and sadly, susan, she was pregnant with a child at and both happened at almost the same time. so she did not get a chance to say goodbye to ruth before she passed away. host: i think it was in her early childhood? massee: that's right, and they were afraid the disease, i think it was d

so it's -- people asked me how i feel about woodrow wilson as a person. you know what it was look to write about him. because he's not a cozy guy. he wouldn't like ask him out for a beer. and i -- i feel like he was a really good man. who wanted to dot right thing. but he just -- didn't acquire all of the skills that a politician needs that the level of the presidencied to better than he did. but i still admire his economic achievements and i still admire his ambition for the world to figure out a way for global cooperation. yes. another question? >> go on this side. >> okay. >> yes. thank you for the presentation. i came in here by chance, and that's more serendipity now. >> your lucky day. >> it is. [laughter] so how does -- how did wilson square his moralism with the behavior of the outlies so thinking about something like the declaration or the pico agreement or other colonialist afnghts afnghts that came out of the paris negotiation? >> yes. that's -- an excellent question. he saw it that his big achievement in that regard was they -- in, you know, f

next, a look at president woodrow wilson's decision in 1917 to enter enter world war i. will englund is the author of "march 1917: on the brink of war and revolution." he talks about wilson's views on human rights, world affairs, democracy, and america's role in the world. he spoke at the eisenhower national historic site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. this is 40 minutes. host: welcome, everyone. we are at the eisenhower national historic site at gettysburg, pennsylvania. we have a complete program of world war i reenactors and soldiers, reenactment programs , as well as speakers. our next speaker is will englund. will is a veteran moscow correspondent for "the baltimore sun" and "the washington post." he is a winner of the pulitzer prize for investigative reporting as well. currently, he is a foreign desk editor at "the washington post." he will be taking leave this fall to teach at princeton. he lives in baltimore with his wife, who is also a journalist. while in moscow, he became interested in the year 1917, the year the united states entered the war and the year the ru

after the great war, even though woodrow wilson to get us involved in international politics, it was not the time for popular opinion to steer that direction. one of the 14 points was the creation of the league of nations, which was supposed to be an organization much like the united nations today that was going to resolve international conflicts without the need to go to war. the treaty of versailles was never ratified by the united states congress. so the united states was never an official signer of the treater of versailles -- treaty of versailles. as a result, we also did not take part in regards to the league of nations in any way, shape, or form, so the league of nations had no teeth, which was part of the reason for the breakdown eventually. in reason that occurred was, large part, due to woodrow wilson who was an uncompromising individual himself, and did not bring any republican members of congress with him to the versailles piece talks -- versailles peace talks, which greatly irritated politicians back home, which ended up in the versailles treaty not been ratified by cong

there are many people who believe the california one the vote for woodrow wilson. men voting is what put him over the top many believed. there are two schools of thought about the suffragists. their women like kathleen catt who had a letter to wilson who believed that the best answer is to drop the demand for suffragettes at the moment and dedicate ourselves to mobilization and helping with the war cost. they believe that by demonstrating and working toward the war and demonstrating their dedication that they proved their citizenship and they would get the amendment that they wanted. on the other hand, there's a national women's party who are picketing the white house and demanding suffrage now. you can say that one was more effective than the other but the truth is, like the civil rights movement, you have more radical groups from the cork and moderate southern christian leadership conference who were working from two sites, wilson would become the first president to promote the amendment for women to vote. largely from pressure that he got from both sides. and he

. >> next on american history tv, a look at president woodrow wilson's decision in 1917 to enter world war i. the foreign desk editor for the washington post is the author of march, 1917, on the brink of war and revolution. he talks about wilson's views on human rights, world affairs democracy, and america's role in the world. he spoke at the eisenhower national historic site in gettysburg pennsylvania. this is 40 minutes. >> welcome, everyone, we are at the eisenhower national historic site in gettysburg, pennsylvania. it is great war camp cole weekend. we're having a complete program of programs as well as speakers here. our next speaker is will englund. he's a veteran correspondent for the baltimore sun and the washington post. he's a winner of the pulitzer prize for investigative reporting as well and presently he is a foreign desk editor at the washington post. he will be taking leave this fall to teach at princeton journalism. he lives in baltimore with his wife who is also a journalist. well in moscow he became interested in the year 1917 the year that the united states entered

he wrote a book called the -- "the ordeal of woodrow wilson." it was very sympathetic and a best seller. hoover wrote two dozen books. that was the only one on the bestseller list. but it was fascinating. what about wilson that appeals to hoover, it is useful to know in terms of predicting the problems hoover would experience in the white house. brian: who asks him to be commerce secretary and how long was he there and what impact did he have? mr. smith: it is interesting. the harding administration -- warren harding, rather touchingly aware of his own limitations, set out to recruit a cabinet of the best men. charles evans hughes became secretary of state. and he asked hoover, and basically gave hoover a choice. and hoover picked the commerce department, which in those days was perhaps the least important department in the cabinet. well, of course hoover being , hoover, soon there were cartoons portraying him as secretary of commerce and undersecretary of everything else. -- rub ad rob -- rob lot of feathers. he created something out of what was

congress was called into special session by president woodrow wilson when he asked for a declaration of war against germany. >> and how did you decide thupted to introduce similar congress women? >> i thought that would be the best way to look at the changing evolution and role of women in congress. and we have had an event since 2004 and we've learned so many things. we thought what better way to learn about women than from the women who served? and some of the stories that we've learned have been just wonderful to learn about. >> we've done about 40 interviews to date. 30 of which are published on our website and roughly 20 or 25 are with former women members. it's a unique snapshot. and the span of service goes back to the mid-19-60s and all the way up to the -- mid-1960s, and into the 20 tens. >> what range of backgrounds did these women represent? >> very different. they're from different political parties. different ages. we've interviewed women that came to congress when they were younger and they had children. a few women that describe themselves as grandmothers. also regions

justice woodrow wilson said they should! i'll be right back. . >> robert bork's america is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions. >> i said what the hell are you doing? >> segregated lunch counters. >> i said we got to get him. >> midnight rage. >> should have grabbed him by the lapel and said you want to be confirmed, listen. >> it was watching the giants versus the pygmies. >> women, blacks as well. >> what happened has become a verb, to bork. verb, to bork. >> those arerererereu plan for, some just... (crash) ...happens. putting it all on credit cards just wasn't working. but a loan through lending club was a cinch. no branch office, no stuffy suits. consolidating our debt saved us nearly $300 a month. that's not sofa change. we had enough to start saving again, and a little extra to send these two to summer camp. being outdoors was good for them? (vo) check your rate at welcometotheclub.com. >> judge kavanaugh and the white house both dismissing the accusation as attempt to smear the judicial no

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american history can be seen as a conflict between two prettyt princetonians, james madison and woodrow wilson and views wilson's populist indulgences in the election of 1912 as the beginning of a path. input from the minority, precisely the opposite of the slow deliberation and multi-interest compromise that the framers thought was central. so, we've talked about the congress, and we've talked about the presidency, and remember, what i'm trying to do here is distill the essential lessons that we have to teach our students and to all americans, and just to review, congress is supposed to separate powers and have checks and balances in order to ensure slow reason. the president is not supposed to communicate directly with the people and is supposed to be chosen by the electoral college. independent judgment. and the judiciary, the most dangerous branch -- sorry, the least dangerous branch as hamilton calls its, and the most dangerous branch as basical calls it because in his view, the judiciary has been transformed beyond the framers' view. madison saw the bill of rights as an inspiration to th

we enter this war, said hisident woodrow wilson in address before congress, only because there is noay of defending our rights. ♪[music] >> the professional army was in a and the only hope lay great citizen army which had to be raised up literally overnight. when pershing was named to head the american expeditionary force that would go to france, the nation applauded. history,irst time in american soldiers would fight in the glare of world attention, entire world having a direct stake in the outcome of their effort. the commander in chief, now a major general, arrived in europe troops. ahead of his shortly thereafter, he was promoted to full general, a rank americans -- washington, graft, sherman and had held before him. a spirit moved across america in those memorable months of 1917, uniting the people as they had been united before, touching their effort with the whichand patriotic fervor still live in the music which animated the nation's souls. ♪[music] ♪[singing] ♪ johnny, get your gun ♪ get your gun your gun ♪ ♪ take it on the run ♪ on the run ♪ on the run needr them calling yo

historian patricia o'toole chronicles the political career of woodrow wilson.also this weekend, black youth project director charlene - - shares her thoughts on how to shift mainstream ideas on race, gender and class. new york times corresponded cj chivers talks about the american soldiers serving in afghanistan and iraq. and - - president of the foundation for rights in education. and - - argue a variety of societal trends have led to a weakening of diverse city appoints on college campuses. that's all this weekend on c-span2's booktv. for complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> here's a look at books being published this week. the "washington post"'s bob woodward reports on the inner workings of the trump administration. in his book, fear. in contempt, ken starr recalled his time as independent counsel and the investigation of the clinton administration. astrophysicists neil degrasse tyson explained - - in assessor to war. and in identity, political scientist francis - - examines the history and current role of identity politics on domestic and global affairs

the league of nations that was the pre-disaster to the united nations that was founded by will woodrow wilson the u.s. president but the u.s. congress never let the u.s. actually join it and it was unable to act in the days before world war two and we had world war two he said the u.n. is now like that facing a situation where as a symbol of powerlessness and he said they we really need to change he says that radical ideas may be trendy at the moment and multilateralism isn't trendy but multilateralism is the only way to avoid genocide he said it was genocide at the end of world war two that created the united nations and that's why he was same passion in the end saying what was at stake here a really very strong speech by the french president at one point when he talked about the united nations he listed important things as you now. sco the international criminal court the human rights council and the part of the un that deals with the palestinians. interesting those are all bits that the u.s. doesn't like and has pulled out of and he named them all in this speech also worth telling you he w

but kind of the way baltimore was, not alabama was and woodrow wilson was determined to change that and he was successful in doing so and he was in charge with the federal government. >> civil war was the first time african american troops were used. you know, people had done more and virginia doing that. that's a tactic that has been used, you know, because arming and giving military training to african americans is not a great source of comfort to a lot of the white population, particularly in the south, as much as it was to get the right numbers of troops, it was designed to instill some fear in the opponents. >> i would like to ask who your personal mentors were then and during the military. >> thank you for the question. i would say my grandmother was before that i got into the military because they were always hardworking and providing for their families and just kind and trying to teach us what's right and our education. so my mentors were my parents and grandmother. and after i got in, most of my mentors were white males because they were dominant in the military. and so the

company is commemorating the virus thatev infected political figures like david lloyd george, woodrow wilson, and mahatma gandhi. the shows choreography illustrates warfare takingnd ple insideutside the body. >> people were fighting each other and one side won. actually the virus at the same time was fighting a much bigger battle where everybody lost. repoofer: spanish flu was one the greatest infectious disease disasters in history. the hope is that theld is better prepared to respond if it happens again. laura: they went to stonehge as children. now they have returned to the famous monument as adults, re-creating the photos of their youth. english heritage is asking members of the public to share their olde photos of stonehe to celebrate a century since it was given to the nation. the site wasonated by a lawyer who ught it in 1915. duncan kennedy reports. s ncan: he's got one, she is getting hers, she t leaving without one. photographs, millions of them,s taken of ttraordinary monument. and now this monument is yours. bob came as a teenager in 1960, and returned to this year to the exact s

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this administration, it was something that woodrow wilson proposed in the 1880s and teddy roosevelt began to implement and wilson after taft was president. wilson continued that effort but we need to take apart the administrative state. it's out of control, even when you're president, you can't control it. what happened at the end of the obama administration, there are two kind of employees, political employees and a permanent workforce and you can change the political employees but you can't change the permanent workforce so they were taking appointees and making them part of the workforce so when you get in there, you take over something like the department of labor and you've got maybe 10, 15 people working with you and a department that's completely opposed so it becomes very difficult , it's unmanageable, it needs to be reduced and controlled andthe supreme court is the best way to do that. >> i think the idea of having regulations is terrific . and credit trump with a tremendous reversal of regulations so far but i think if you had congress ruling on these many hundred thousand regu

president woodrow wilson was a democrat of that day and he had resegregated.he president of princeton. you can be educated and be racist. >> say that again, preacher. >> it's not some backwoods phenomenon. he -- when he got elected he got black votes to get elected, he began to recession regait federal offices in d.c. and he played birth of a nation in the over office to all of his staff a hundred years before steve bannon was ever there. all right? and use that movie, that ugly mis -- misuse of history, that ugly lie about history that the klan and the racists and the red shirts were the heroes and the reconstructionists, black and white people working together in the south were actually the ones that had undermined the nation. we can't forget that. we can't forget that. that this is not something new and the statue was raised in 1919 to pay homage to woodrow wilson because the white nationalists and white supremacists of that day believed that in woodrow wilson they finally had a friend in the white house. could that be why the alt-right chose to march aroun

company is commemorating the virus that even affected political figures like david lloyd george, woodrow wilsoneople were fighting each other, and one side they thought they‘d won, actually the virus at the same time was actually fighting a much bigger battle where everybody lost. spanish flu was one of the greatest infectious disease disasters in history. the hope is the world is now better prepared to respond if it happens again. smitha mundasad, bbc news. this evening, the winner of this year‘s mercury prize will be announced, with a £25,000 cheque going to the best album of the last 12 months by a british or irish act. previous winners have included the arctic monkeys and elbow, but in an age where we can all stream individual tracks, do albums still matter? ?our entertainment correspondent colin paterson has more. # now i‘m stuck in a rut, kicking stones...# lily allen, 12 years and four albums into a career, thrilled to have finally made a mercury prize shortlist with no shame, and she‘s out to win. it would mean everything to me. i mean, i‘d absolutely love for that to happen. it‘s not g

white house at the top of the hill, and if you look more closely, that could well be president woodrow wilson driving the car, driving the automobile in a stately fashion for a brighter and more prosperous future. the other thing i find ironic about this ad is that it talks xon supremacy, referring to the automobile, but wilson of course was a believer in anglo-saxon supremacy. he introduces jim crow and to the federal government for the first time. the federal government came segregated, and this gets at what i wanted to talk about today in terms of, whose democracy is it? let's go to the next slide. the warp pulled african-americans for the first time out of the south. it was a big migration and there were two reasons for it. manufacturing goods for the europeans in the factories in the north, and secondly, the into themmigrants united states from europe had been cut off by the war. 1.4 million immigrants enter the u.s. the year before the war and by 1917, virtually no one was. so whites and blacks from the to gowere being recruited north. this also gave a great boost to civil rights organi

running for office let's bring in palace of terror he's the director of the brazil institute at the woodrow wilson center who joins us via skype from maryland how surprised paolo are you by this court ruling this would surely come as a bitter disappointment for lula yes certainly but it's not surprising at all it was expected the law is very clear it was signed into law by president lula himself into causal and then it states that it personal. found guilty of a crime in a second east us moves in a court of appeals is eleventh you go to run for office that is precisely what happened to the former president he's now serving a twelve year sentence for grimes related to corruption in money laundering he is luck eligible to run for president and that was the decision of for today by the superior electoral court of brazil and paolo it must have raised some eyebrows within brazilian political circles when his party put him up as a candidate to run in the election knowing full well he'd been convicted of a crime and even jailed. he yes but they did it because little love is a very popular leader and a par

considered art in the future and to return to birth of a nation briefly, i believe it was president woodrow wilson called it history written in the lightning and he was saying this is a positive phrase about the film but i think it does the fact that one of the ways that art is political and most powerful is it controls the way that we think about the past, the way that we relate to the past and an international, political context and to think of an contemporary counter narrative to one like birth of a nation, after the shooting in charleston, the activists newsom famously scaled the flagpole at the statehouse and took down the state flag which included the confederate flag and of course this was an act of protest but it was one that was different than i don't know, just burning a random confederate flag or pushing legislation or appearing on a talk show. it was evoking the history of american art and photography as it relates to national symbols like the soldiers raising the american flag at you ojeleye and it became a striking visualrepresentation in that tradition , but this can be patriotism a

braggart's talk trump has done nothing that compares with the power grabs and norm violations of woodrow wilsonndon johnson, richard nixon, george w. bush or even barack obama. so has it been prematurely history the dire history of the trump administration? >> i wouldn't agree with the idea of the power violations of all those other presidents. i mean, what you judge power by is what is the purpose for which it is being used. and in those presidents, many of those i would say, certainly franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson, they were using power for expanding, except for war in vietnam, expanding the lives and the opportunities of the ordinary citizen. and that's a very different thing from just using power for self. but i do feel less pessimistic about the country than i think a lot of other people do. we've seen movements. we saw that women's march on the day of the inauguration. now we've seen new marches this year. and as long as there's still only 35% of the people that support president trump and feel good about what he's doing and they rightfully can support him, but that means there ar

and says it will fight with all means to make sure their candidate remains alistair is from the woodrow wilson center as brazil institute he's not surprised by the decision. he's a very popular leader. part will you know use this fact to try to to use to their advantage. there is a cut off date in brazilian law it is the seventeenth of september this year the part you will have debts is delimit for the party to replace the candidate for president it's a political calculation that former president in his partners at the workers' party will have to make they may delete this decision childer very end they may decide to morrow or day after to replace it and we do we know who will replace leno as the head of the ticket is the former mayor of salt paul will learn to have done but this is a decision the former president and his political party have to make united nations as it has expressed surprise and regret at the u.s. decision to cut all funding to one of its agencies that helps palestinian refugees the trumpet ministrations cutting more than two hundred million dollars in aid to it will in effec

it will fight with all means to make sure he remains a candidate that was a terrorist from the woodrow wilson center as brazil institute he says he's not surprised by the decision. is a very popular leader. and part will you know use this fact to try to to use to there then there is a cut off date in brazilian law it is the seventeenth of september this year the part you will have this is the limit for a party truly place. candidate for president it's a political calculation that for a. president and his partners that the workers' party will have to make they may delay this decision. very end they may decide tomorrow after to replace. then we will know who will replace leno as the head of the ticket is the former mayor of. london but this is a this is the former president and his political party have to make the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks on friday broke up without a deal but they'll resume next week don your lack reports from toronto. president trump has long said nafta was unfair to his country and he was visibly pleased wh

henry kissinger held back certain processes from nixon because they had lost faith, going back to woodrow wilson essentially took over the white house after he had a stroke and that was not made public. what is different here now is you have members of the administration considering constitutional methods for possibly removing him, deciding not to to avoid a constitutional crisis but leaving us in a situation where you have on elected and unknown officials taking over the executive branch because they have a president who does not respect the rule of law, they believe. whether that is a constitutional crisis is besides the point. it is a crisis. vonnie: it is a strange situation for the editorial section of the new york times, they know who this is an at the same time reporters trying to find out who it is, trying to confirm or deny. does it matter who it is? a secretary or somebody of that stature, would it make more of a difference than if it was a mid-level bureaucrat? reporter: it makes a difference. to aey gave anonymity second-tier justice department official or a second-tier national secu

they made one mistake, they left a bust of woodrow wilson up, and he hadn't been arrive. when you're an actor, do you talk to people like -- you played national security adviser, chief of staff. >> that's right. >> have you talked to somebody like mack or other people that played those roles? >> mack was very kind. it was a significant conversation. i was hoping not to be obnoxious. it's a pretty big task to play a role like this. yeah, i -- talking about being accurate and getting it right, i just felt very excited about it. it's a fascinating world. it's basically carving out our times. we're building the history consciously. obviously, fiction doesn't match reality. but marc was kind of -- i sort of narrows id down to a day. what does a day look like? i don't know if you have seen the show, but it's kind of a tragic -- kind of a high level situation where the capital has been bombed and everybody dies basically. and this is the designated survivor has to take the seat of the president. what do you do in that situation? how do you build from the ground up? there's a ser

had a incapacitated president, woodr woodrow wilson. and the country was largery run by his wife.nd if a majority of the cabinet should no longer perform his or her dut aerksz they'll be removed of their aught toies. that's there if something makes it impossible for him to serve his term. but it tuz require a majority of the cabinet and the president could fire the cabinet in advance. so this is a president almost out of it, if you will. the fact people in the administration have been talking about it is an indication that president trump at times appears to be erratic. it would be remarkable if they fired someone on a basis of a new york times article, based on what the president has been saying all along. so i can't see how they would do it on the basis of an article. they can't do this before the election. to do this before the election would underskoecore the argumen that democrats have been making. >> let me come back to you, rachel. house judiciary announced it was going to subpoena the note from andrew mccabe in which he details rosenstein's comments. there twhwere the arti

in 1919, president woodrow wilson had a stroke and his second wife edith essentially ran the country 18 months. by that point, the 25th amendment was long overdue but it took the kennedy assassination to get it written, and it didn't get used by a president for another two decades when president reagan had a 1985 surgery. it got its real test two years later when incoming reagan chief of staff howard baker was urged to consider it after reports reagan was in mental decline. baker agreed to observe the president for deficiencies and when he didn't find any the 25th amendment was never mentioned again in the reagan white house. it was invoked twice more, both by george w. bush for colonoscopies and that's it. the question we're confronting today is whether the 25th amendment could be used to remove a president who some feel -- as the unnamed white house writer puts it -- is, quote, detrimental to the health of our republic. the short answer is not easily. the amendment was written primarily to address physical incapacity but it does include a section never used on removing a president

woodrow wilson, teddy roosevelt, and then it was expanded in the 1930's under president franklin d roosevelth what is called the new deal. ever since then, american liberalism as a policy and ideology has been prominent in liberal democrat administrations such as john f. kennedy, lyndon johnson, bill clinton, and barack obama. this american liberalism promotes a mixed regime, what they consider a mixture of private and public. a mixed regime, a balanced regime. the idea is mixing the private free market economy, free-market capitalism, private business and so on, with the public being a large federal government role for managing that economy and promoting social justice through various social programs. so it is a mixture of private and public, free-market capitalism, private property exchange, competition and so on. and a large central government regulating that, for the public good. since the 1960's, both political parties, democrat and republican, have endorsed this mixed view of american politics. a mixture of public and private. neither a pure -- except for smaller groups on the politica

and historian patricia o'toole chronicles the political career of president woodrow wilson. also this weekend black youth project 100 director charlene carrutherss shares her thoughts on how to shift mainstream ideas on race, gender and class. new york times correspondent c.j. chifers talks about the american soldiers serving in afghanistan and iraq. and the president of the foundation for individual rights and education and professor john haight argue that a variety of societal trends have led to a weakening of diverse viewpoints on college campuses. that's all this weekend on c-span2's booktv. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. .. i have the privilege of introducing ann, who we were talking about this earlier, i have known for 18 years when i was primordial ooze

was an old-fashioned democrat whose heroes were jefferson william jennings bryan and the good woodrow wilsonbefore we uncovered his racism he used to read him books night after night a book lover and buyer and reader to his kids. his mother who he never mentions in any of his writings was a stern lutheran and is humphrey's father used to say to the kids mother is politically unreliable. [laughter] that was his expression for the mother. unfortunately for humphrey his father was a profound influence in his life died in 1949 right after he came to the senate. that was the loss of somebody very important to him. that's when he said of my father was alive he could have canceled me. long - - counseled me. he wrote a piece called my father. with his mother he mentions her and that is it. and used to play with african-american road workers when his mother found out what she was doing she made him stop. >> we are out of time for questions. really quick and then one more. >> your talk brought back memories but my friends were so disappointed on the vietnam issue. if it's a human characteristic to be

for him, he almost would not have received it because he was probably following very closely woodrow wilson's campaign for his re-election, and he thought that the new freedom entailed all the good things about america that he should, he should help channel in indiana. and his speech was so radical that the trustees and the visiting members of the indiana supreme court said this man can't represent us. there was a great, a great controversy there. he was awarded his degree and went off to world war i. returning, his mother said you don't want to practice here in elwood. you need a larger canvas on which to paint your life. and he ended up working for harvey firestone in akron, ohio. and there, though this was in those days perhaps the epicenter of isolationism, of regret for our involvement in the first world war and the league of nations, there was, of course, a governor who was a devotee of wilson, of course, who lay paralyzed in the white house from his efforts to save his dream of the league. and governor cox, a man who would figure largely in wendell's life, a young franklin roosevelt, r

woodrow wilson was ill at the end of his presidency and they talked about at their. ronald reagan say it-- at the reports of the end of his presidency, some said he was foggy. the 25th amendment ready serious charge brought up in the editorial. >> this has been going on since they never one of the presidency. you had a number of democrats crying for impeachment on a daily basis, so this is not a surprise and i think what we need to remember is let's look at the two years of all of the success that this administration has had. this president has campaigned on a number of promises that he's following through with and you may not like his style, but he's getting it done. cheryl: i don't have much time. last word, eric. the woodward book, bob corker has made similar statements. how big of a problem as it? >> i think people are used to books about the administration and unsourced material. there will be-- the fact is no one agrees with the president 100%. in that and looking at the results of the administration i think everyone has been on board for that and, i mean, no o

>> i'm actually giving a talk on this subject on wednesday at the woodrow wilson center.ost s most people in general become more conservative as they get older but david has gone in thed opposite direction and his is more radical and more angry. i think his best work was inngey the. writing around. writing around george smiley with the with th ambiguity of the cold war and the fact that neither side was completely right or wrong.be m more but now his novels appear to be to be much more black-and-white. and is more like likely james bond books. and all too often those baddies are american. and i think there is a certain strain these days actually it is slightly old-fashioned hippie attitude that some english man of a generation feels about america isam resentment to takes over of a predominant role. not only exemplified but also in the minds of those intelligence officers like mi six that was very much in the culture also a feeling of being amusement theyt have been trained.er so yes. i agree. his politics become more one-dimensional and more interesting results we have ti

i've been racking my memory and it goes back to woodrow wilson around 1890, 1920, most prkts when theyve office die quickly or leave with deep unpopularity. therefore, nobody who succeeds them in the opposition or whatever tends to invoke them. and they tend to stay out. george h.w. bush criticized his son george w. bush about iraq just before he went into the iraq war. and i don't see very much previous, if you like, form on this question. this suggests there is a deep crisis and we see it. "the new york times" op-ed, the anonymous op-ed, reportedly from a senior administration official, suggests the cracks in the american sort of body politic go right to the heart of the government of the united states itself. and, you know, president obama is coming up the other end as well, if you look at the levels of street protest, the levels of mobilization outside of mainstream politics, those have gone right through the roof approaching levels which have not been seen since the 1960s or 1970s. and i think president obama has brought in partly to reenergize in democratic party. but the numbers

>> i'm giving a talk on the subject on wednesday at the woodrow wilson center.ten people in general and this is a generalization become more conservative as they get older but david has gone in the opposite direction. he's become more radical and angry. i personally think to the detriment of his fiction. his best work was in the period when he is writing about joe george smiley when he deals with the ambiguities of the cold war and the fact that neither side was completely right and neither side completely wrong. now his novels appear to me to be much more black-and-white and good and bad. they are more like the james bond book. i'm afraid all too often the bad are americans. although there are pretty nasty brits, too. i think there's a certain strain and david of wealth, i think it's an old-fashioned to be attitude that some englishmen of an older generation feel about america resentment of america taking over from our role, predominant role, that was not only exemplified in the event of the second world war and the aftermath but also in the minds of the intell

says it will fight with all means to make sure he remains a candidate honestly terrorism the woodrow wilson center as brazil institute he says he's not surprised by the decision. he's a very popular leader in part. you know use this fact to try to loot. used to their advantage there is a cut off date in brazil or it is this. september this year part two will have debts is the limit for the party to replace the candidate for president is it. political coalition that former president and he's partners that workers' party will have to make they may delay this decision. childer very end they may decide tomorrow they are after to replace. we do we know who will replace leno as the head of the ticket is the former mayor of salt paul will love to have that but this is a this is the former president and his political party have to make the u.s. and canada have missed a deadline to revamp the north american free trade agreement talks ended on friday without a deal president donald trump told congress he will press ahead with a new agreement with mexico canada's foreign minister still optimistic a de

to nonpartisan serious scholarship leading to actionable policy ideas which is the frame for woodrow wilson or only phd president and our first international president. so you spoke there as in 2016, maybe earlier, but 2016, on your last dayss a secretary of state, and i appreciate it -- on your last days as secretary of state, and i appreciate it, thank you very much. we had a conversation of trade, if i remember. i wonder what you think of the value added at a number of think tanks? i think you spoke at carnegie today. in this town especially now? >> they are an essential ingredient of our democracy. they are a key check and balance, if you will, on those who aren't choosing to think. think tanks are very very valuable because if you're in public life, as you know well, the pace is such that you don't have the time to do your own research or to go out and just dive into something. you need people to present you with an idea and give you the sources and tell you what to go read. and i find the contribution of whether it's bookings, it's carnegie international, aei, on the other side of a l

this is designed for a president who is incapacity tated like woodrow wilson was. >>> stay with me, i want to bring in bill. you have been in white houses where everyone parses the leaks, the knox times has come down on the idea that rosenstein said these things and it meant something. not that they are misconstrued quotes, that's why their headline suggests rosenstein secretly record trump. i want to read from the article where it says, rosenstein made these remarks about secretly recording trump in meetings and conversations with officials. these people were briefed on the events or the memos, does that look like a tell to you because we just went through on the screen all these anonymous people, the people doing the leaking that the times finds credible are secondhand having read some other drips of it. >> that could be. and at the end of the day, either rosenstein was rattled and said a few things he didn't follow through on and were entirely speculative. and he knew he couldn't follow through on it. he knew he couldn't follow through on wearing a wiretap either. maybe he was bein