wilson alum of woodrow wilson high school here in the city. wilson alumwe are starting a cn at the school this year about the possibility of looking at hison a new, especially racial legacy given that woodrow wilson high school is built in a majority black city with a , andity black population it has a unique feature that is -- doatop the bones of you have any advice for us in having this conversation? >> good luck. [laughter] alum, i i am a fellow can understand and if there is enough sentiment to change it, i the stopt would be -- the end of the world. but i wish you wouldn't because woodrow wilson -- i don't know how it was when you were there, when i was there i -- and i graduated in 1957, it was a jewelry -- a jewel in the crown of the d.c. public school system . part of it was that our teachers tended to be a bit older. through your seniority, you got to wilson. >> fortunately none of your teachers are still alive to hear you call them an elephant. >> if we are going to have our high schools named after presidents, to have the one that is

when i think about woodrow wilson, i think about going to woodrow wilson's house in the fifth grade on a family trip. the house was closed. my mom said they are all the same. just look in the windows. i got in the house later with my mother and grandmother. my grandmother remembered president wilson. it was the first president, now i'm teaching politics, who was the first president you remember? i tell students some day some will say, really? obama? you remember president obama? one day your day will come. i said what did you think of him, grandma? she wasn't terribly enthusiastic. she said he ran on the campaign he kept us out of the war, and he got us into a war. second, she would talk about women's suffrage. and i think women's suffrage for her was a special thing because her older sisters couldn't vote, and she could always vote. until the day she died in her 90's, that pride in being able to vote was something that in imbued my grandmother, but also imbued my grandmother's sister's. so over the years, when i think about president wilson and how women's suffrage came about. on one

it's exciting to do this kind of work because i look at james polk differently, james madison, woodrow wilson really mean and friends of wilson scholars, i'm sure i drive them crazy, i don't -- even harry truman 1950, he took us into korea without asking for a war declaration from congress and that opened the war, that opened the door for later presidents to do the same thing which was not a great thing for the united states in my opinion. >> host: let's hear from one more caller and this is paula in washington, d.c., paula, you're on with historian michael beschloss. >> honored to be the last caller. michael -- [laughter] >> caller: i really ready to get this book and read it, my question to you is in doing extensive research which i know start with this book, do you feel that most wars are predicated on a lie? >> guest: predicated on a lie? i must tell you with huge regret having written the book and i write this all the way through there has been much too much lying and presidents have taken us into many, many unnecessary wars and i think one of the ways to stop that is read history and se

-- projection of woodrow wilson. the powericans gained of house of congress. what good is popular party -- if aip if presidents presidents party does not control congress? the senate rejected his proposal for a league of nations. they did this despite his efforts to tour the country, to rally public opinion to his cause. -- helped the president would be the repository of public opinion and that would force congress to act in the way he saw fit. he was no longer the repository of public opinion or popular. he built a model of presidential leadership that is based on popularity. in the final year in particular for wilson's presidency, it is a lonely one. reality, hisrim transformation of the state of the union was complete. feature of aentral wilsonian view of government and executive power. it was not immediate. the 1988on to repudiation of the wilson's presidency, the country returned to normalcy in 1920 and his conservative successors do not follow his lead. calvin coolidge appeared once before congress. coleridge,

so this in-person practice was reinstated by woodrow wilson in april 1913. wilson believed the constitutional separation of powers was a flaw in the american constitutional system. he spent a good part of his life critiquing separation of power. he was not alone in this. interestingly, we can consider william howard taft his conservative predecessor. taft sent his december 1912 address to congress in written fashion. there is a fascinating passage. taft, in the 1912 election which pitted a radical, theodore roosevelt versus woodrow wilson and the conservative william howard taft, the defender of the constitution. he wrote in his 1912 address, the rigid holding a part of the executive and legislative branches of this government has not worked for the great advantage of either. there has been much lost and the machinery due to the lack of cooperation and interchange of views face-to-face between representatives of the executive and members of the two legislative branches of government. it was never intended that they should be separated in the sense of not bei

truman was a woodrow wilson democrat. he believed in woodrow wilson's ideas of international organization. in world war i, the league of nations had failed. after world war ii, truman was determined to make the new united nations work. there was one connection from the war. after world war i, truman went into business, which failed because there was a depression after world war i. after world war ii, harry truman was careful to keep economic controls on the economy while the economy switched from a thetary to a civilian mode, reconversion of the american economy. there was no depression after world war ii. truman also believed in justice from war, the proper way to deal with former enemies is to control them and make them friends. this is what he tried to do both with germany and japan after world war ii. bring them into the society of nations. then finally, truman, getting back to justice, after world war ii, they set up the nuremberg justiceo mete out legal to the leaders of nazi germany because he felt that it was not

so people ask me how i know about woodrow wilson as a perso person, what it was like to write about him, you would not ask him out for a beer. i feel he was a really good man who wanted to do the right thing but did not require all the skills that a politician needs at that level of a presidency. but i still admire his economic achievements and his vision for the world for global cooperatio cooperation. >> thank you for the presentation i came here by chance now it is serendipity. >> now at your lucky day. [laughter] . >> so what about the behavior of the outliers? like the declarations or agreements or the colonialist activities for paris negotiations? . >> that's an excellent question. he thought his big achievement in that regard was the former colonies of the other side but then they are among the other victors he convinced the allies at the peace conference they should be a mandate of these powers. so he saw that as an improvement on imperialism so that was the beginning of the way of colonialism that was his contribution. he did not like them at all but with the peace conference t

going forward there's more we want to look at i'm on the board of the woodrow wilson house we are re-examining many of those things ourselves we just went through a process to re-examine wilson and race and how african-americans were treated during his time which was no good. a century has passed so it is overdue but reading books helps also a public discussion and how they are still so relevant and what is our global role? ultimately i'm opening one - - i'm hoping we can get the pershing park site opened as a national memorial for world war i as it is long overdue. >> i'm interested in the world war i literature fiction as played specifically johnny got his gun. a farewell to arms by ernest hemingway and under fire. there are so many. the song by sebastian fox they all dealt with world war i and what part did they play? . >> i have quite a bit about literature that i covered all of these writers writing about the war like hemingway and ee cummings who was a volunteer in france writes his first book, a novel about being imprisoned by the french for refusing to denounce the germans. so the diff

it was only when woodrow wilson then, they all started just delivering it in writing but then woodrown wanted to exert the power of the presidency against congress so he said, i'm going in person and teddy roosevelt thought, why didn't i think about that beforehand? it gives the president power when they're in person. it is a struggle between the two of them right now and it started with the midterms. there had been a time when the president for the first two years had the president and the congress and lots of influence in the supreme court, and now you're seeing that balance shifting i think with the struggle between the two of them. >> you said something really interesting about woodrow wilson wanting to assert the authority of the presidency by delivering this speech at congress. that is a fight writ large that is going on today. it's been going on for a few presidencies. but right now, we have a president who is basking in an expansion of executive authority and we've been hearing testimony about this with the new attorney overall nominee and we have a speaker of the house who re

the presidency, from the wilson center in washington, d.c., historians and economists discuss woodrow wilson'sn-american rights, banking, and the federal reserve system. >> at the time, the thing to do was to appoint a few token black people and not to why lynching was bad and move on. hy lynching was bad, and move on. what the wilson administration anywas to seek and destroy black power, so those opportunities to salvage something would not exist again until eleanor roosevelt would play this role. that was new. he did not have to do that. there were black democrats. he could have appointed them. he did not want to. he did not see that as a productive way to deal with his race. he did not see that particularly important because african-americans were not part nationalism and that is wilsonian as much as it is american. >> watch the entire talk on woodrow wilson's domestic sunday on "the presidency." you're watching american history tv a c-span3. -- on c-span3. eight astronauts took turns reading passages from the book of genesis to millions of listeners on earth. next from american history tv,

but when he did in that election, the only paved the way for woodrow wilson because they divided the republicans against themselves but also, was barack obama shows, to deliver his speech for his second term mandate about the things that he wanted to do on the progressive front. because that was where roosevelt had done his square deal. if you go back and read what teddy roosevelt was offering his square deal, it was very liberal! super -- it was universal healthcare, all of these things and he was doing as a populist. he was no longer doing this as, one of his ideas for example is that you should be allowed to overturn judicial decisions by plebiscite. she could have a vote. if we don't like the judge's decision, we can referendum on the judicial ruling and overturn that. that doesn't sound very republican. >> all right, bring us up to today. is donald trump a populist? >> oh, 100 percent. 110 percent! >> walk us through what he is 150 percent populist. >> outside about the two donald trump 's. when we meet in 2000 when he runs for the reform party. is a populist, he said that he ha

about the reincarnation of the monroe doctrine, which president trump -- back in 1913 president woodrow wilson spoke about how the united states intended to teach the republics of south america to elect good people. today that lesson is being , who dare venezuela in recent past to conduct an that does notlicy comply with the economic and political interests with him and then watches over the western hemisphere. i would like to quilt the works -- put the words of the -- quotes the words of another american president. he was one of the founding this a, he considered political project and charlie believed that the creation made --possible between humanity i'm talking about franklin --ano roosevelt did roosevelt. influence the balance of powers and exclusive alliances that have been tried for centuries and always failed. , the policy of the united states and the west is in stark contrast to these noble and just ideals. changes our favorite political game -- changes are a favorite geopolitical game for the united states. if heirs of the statement confirmed by the international court as part of the

back in 12 president woodrow wilson spoke about how the united states intend told team the republics of south america to elect good people. and well, today that lesson is being visited on venezuela, who dared in recent past to conduct an independent policy that does economic andth the political interests of the warden who watches over the western hemisphere. i'd like to quote the words of another american president, spoken to congress on the eve of the creation of the united nations. he was one of the founding fathers of this organization. he considered this as -- political project -- project and truly believed that its creation made it possible to ensure that humanity would not experience wars and conflicts. i'm talking about franklin delano roosevelt. -- it ought to spell the end of unilateral interference and exclusive alliances that have been tried for centuries and have always failed. end of quote. unfortunately, the real policy of united states in the united states scomm in the not just western hemisphere is in stark contrast to those noble and just deals. it's no secret to any

across the united states, killed some families, and then went back the devout nd democrat that woodrow wilson was, he apparently saw that small incursion as an invasion. he sent -- and i've asked the congressional research service for their best numbers, and the estimate, taken from articles and information they had gotten, probably around 75,000 of a new group called the national guard. 1900's, in the early sent them down to stand guard on the border, 75,000. and sent the general down into mexico pursuing poncho villa's troops. they never did get him. they got a lot of his lieutenants, but apparently when 75,000 people were put on the border, there was no more invasion. and if you look at the u.s. constitution, article 4, section 4, this is our constitution that says the united states shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion. now, 51,000 in a month is a whole many, many times more than the folks that poncho villa had come in and killed americans. would the gentleman consider that an invasion what we have goin

woodrow wilson was the first in 1913 to give the state of the union before congress. 83 other times. 1934, there has never been a state of the union past february 2. this speaker has a new history. one, first of this invite. two, she closes the house down during a shutdown and votes against allowing payments to the federal workers. to me, that's all wrong. let's change course and get back in the room tomorrow. i don't know if she has a codel or other plans. why don't we make the commitment that we will not leave the room because i know we can't find -- we can find common ground. thank you. >> president trump held a meeting with lawmakers at the white house and talked about a potential agreement to end the shutdownt

of the joining me now to continue this conversation is jane harman, president and ceo of the woodrow wilsoncenter, former democrat from california. jane, our point here is not to alienate our allies who helped us around the world and the kurds and turks who would like to not necessarily do good things too, not to embeenolden iranians running amok in series. why now? >> i think you have to ask the president that but i think the policy is wrong. it's just wrong policy. pulling out of syria in a hurry leaves those fighting alongside of us, not just kurds but the 60,000 highly trained fighters with our help that have kept isis at bay, it's putting them at risk. it's also offering to eye ron a playgrou iran a playground to stay organized and attack into iraq and bother israel, which is right next door. and it is giving seating to russia, a dominant position. great power game is back in the middle east, and it is telling the assad government, which we were against before we were for them, that they now can stay in power forever, even though they used chemical weapons on their own people and have

since 1913, woodrow wilson, there's been 83 times -- not presidents, a number of times they came there to present to congress. the speaker of the house invited president trump on january 3rd when he was sworn in. she also said that should be a town hall, a place where we can have debates and others. i truly believe history will mark this as a low point for the speaker of the house, for that office, to disinvite this president. tomorrow, i am bringing forth to the floor a privileged resolution disapproving of the actions of -- >> sean: explain what the privilege resolution does. that gives you the opportunity to get an up and down vote. >> it gives everybody an opportunity to vote for this. those democrat freshmen who do not like the action of what this speaker is taking -- i've heard from senior members of the democrats, the chair of agriculture committee, he said give trump the money. the arms services chair says walls work. even the number two steny hoyer believes in having a barrier or a wall. what speaker pelosi is doing is almost acting like a dictator. a privilege resolution lieu

woodrow wilson as president personally negotiated the treaty with foreign powers. hand-deliver's the treaty to the senate, asks for approval. strong opposition party. other,wo men hated each woodrow and cabot lodge. but they had different views on what the post war world should look like. >> an american i have remained all my life. i can never be anything else but an american. when i think of the united states in an arrangement like this, i am thinking of what is best for the world. >> he didn't make any accommodations with henry cabot lodge. towas not completely opposed international activities, but he didn't want wilson to put his stamp on this. >> wilson thought as president he could dictate the policy. he thought he could go to the public, get public opinion behind it and force his view on to the senate. that proved not to be the case. the senate debated it and debated at great length. the lack of compromise in the end brought the tree down. it was one of those times when the senate was exercising its advice and consent prerogative that the framers gave them. i

obviously that wasn't true for a long time starting with woodrow wilson.100 years the president delivered the state of the union in congress. it is one of the things that makes it clear that we are a nation of laws and of government. i think if he did it somewhere else, it would look too political. >> dana: part of the state of the union is you get primetime coverage. everybody stops. everybody looks. i'm just gonna hazard a guess here and predict if the president gives a speech somewhere else that networks are going to run with regular programming and not do a primetime speech. >> could be, dana. looking at this, speaker pelosi does run a risk, you know -- you know this, stephen. he has -- she has a couple dozen districts around the country that are not really in sync with her. she runs the risk of looking like same old nancy pelosi. >> dana: i think we have a live shot of where she will be speaking. there we are. we're just waiting for her to come. she can't let this go for too long. >> he offered an important starting point on daca, which isn't a big im

presidents from woodrow wilson when she was born in 1919, to president trump. suffice it to say, she's seen a great deal of change in national and local politics in her life. she was born in niagara falls, new york, and came to michigan at age 6 when her dad got a job, amazingly enough, in the auto industry. the dodge plant. the reason so many people moved to michigan, to build cars and trucks for america. helen attended high school and was an incredible athlete. she was captain of the field hockey team and played tennis where she never lost a match. in four years. during helen's senior year in high school, eleanor roosevelt visited her school to promote women in sports. and helen presented her with a bouquet of roses. a short time later she received a handwritten letter from the first lady. she met her husband working at park davis labs and for their first date they drove five hours to the state pines. that was the start of a 59-year marriage. after being a stay at home mom for 12 years, when her kids were older she started working at the youth home for jufe n

he's the director of the brazil institute at the woodrow wilson center very good to have you with us on al-jazeera. as we saw in daniel's report is absolutely devastating what's happened in broome and genial who's responsible mr smith is.

especially old neo conservative wine poured into it america first rhetorical bottle it so it was woodrow wilson masquerading as pat buchanan i think will he or his speechwriter was trying to give the impression this is what mr trump promised in two thousand and sixteen what he's really giving us is what has been destroying america in the world for the last thirty years where we get to be the sovereign over the entire planet and tell everybody else to do but we don't we don't actually look out for our own narrow national interests i mean we can send troops illegally to syria but we can't send them to our own border to defend that good point daniel it's this universal is ation of america.

. >> professor howard said it wasn't until president woodrow wilson was elected that the state of the union was an oral address before joint sessions of congress. >> this is an opportunity for the president to plan out what he plans to do for the rest of the year. and also an opportunity to claim credit for things that have been accomplished. >> the state of the union speech has been canceled by nancy pelosi, because she doesn't want to hear the truth. >>> the commandant of the coast guard, admiral carl schulz is covering coast guard families who are struggling with the shutdown. >> i find it unacceptable that coast guard men and women have to rely on food pantries and services to get by day to day. >> about 8,000 civilian workers won't get paychecks tomorrow. the coast guard mutual assistance fund is offering interest-free loans to members who need it. >>> air traffic controllers in san francisco and oakland. they're taking their pleas to end the shutdown straight to travelers and passengers. as ktvu's cristina rendon reports, their message is greeted with support. >> before going to

woodrow wilson said i never said unconditional surrender i want the war to end now. ey're not going to be beaten unless we march in there. wilson threatened to say i will not send a single american soldier over the rhine if we press on like this. its highesty had monthly casualty rate in its entire history in world war i, 36,000 casualties a month versus 6000 a month in world war ii. the doughboys, there was no appetite to go on. it was more of a political decision, but the troops definitely one of armistice. >> he was getting pressure from the white house, let alone cross over the rhine river. >> we have another question to your left but i would like to invite that left of the room to raise your hand, too. i will get to this gentleman and i will make my way over. >> thank you. since i am from this area, i have to circle back to harry truman. you almost got to what i was thinking and the question is how harry truman's experience in world war ii affected him as the president. my thinking was his experience in seeing the slaughter and seeing what happens to men on the g

next to him is a colleague at the woodrow wilson center. we're not deliberately here tilting the field towards the woodrow wilson center. she is senior northeast asia associate there. she is an expert on japan, korea, taiwan, northeast asia broadly. she was a journalist for a decade with an emphases on asian markets. she has done a diverse set of work in political economy. my home area as well so we have got a lot in common. a lot to talk about. delighted to have you with us. at the end is eric atback. he is a former u.s. official at the white house. he was my predecessor and successor at the white house, which is a neat trick, if you can pull that off. so delighted to have eric with us. he's an expert on japan. he did a lot of work on china and taiwan at ustr and kovers tho covers those parts of the world. we have a great group here, tilted a little towards economic issues. i will try to broadly divide the conversation into economic and other issues. but they're going to blend do together in peoples initials remarks. what i thought we woul

but by the same token, grant is the only president in american jackson tom andrew woodrow wilson, nobodylse serves two terms, nobody else serves two terms except for you leases s grant. ulysses sorians -- grant. he did a lot of things particularly on foreign policy was not done until grant came along and did what he was going to do. but he did not like being president. the only reason he said he was president was he was worried that if somebody else got elected, they would lose the effects of the war. >> learn more about the people and events that shaped the civil war and reconstruction every saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the on american history tv here on c-span3. lnouncer: new york governor smith was the democratic party's nominee in the 1928 presidential election, losing to republican herbert hoover in a landslide. next come the historian robert charles,alks -- robert talks about his book "the revolution of '28: al smith, american progressivism, and the coming of the new deal." helpedgressive coalition shape a new liberal agenda for the democratic party, paving the way for the poli

especially old neo conservative wine poured into it america first rhetorical bottle it so it was woodrow wilson masquerading as pat buchanan i think will he or his speechwriter was trying to give the impression this is what mr trump promised in two thousand and sixteen what he's really giving us is what has been destroying america in the world for the last thirty years where we get to be the sovereign over the entire planet and tell everybody else to do but we don't we don't actually look out for our own narrow national interests i mean we can send troops illegally to syria but we can't send them to our own border to defend that good point daniel it's universal is ation of american law because i mean we have this situation with a chinese national that was detained in canada who. we the chinese company here as we're sitting down here i read that a former canadian diplomat has been detained in china so now the the game begins here i don't understand how you know you know a lot or lose them makes america stronger it seems to me the new is isolating itself more and more from the world yeah i gotta

it was an american idea through president woodrow wilson and he persuaded the heads of states of lots of other countries, cannot get it passed here in the united states. but it lasted it effectively and it politically remains sound except for the italian invasion of ethiopia and the the japanese invasion in 1934. but the point here is that when the meetings was being held in san francisco, we americans do not know how to establish a regional organization or an international one. guess which countries we went over to to ask how did you guys do this? the league of a rep states was then in existence, and five if i am not mistaken, and saudi arabia, and the arab countries that were independent there. so the united states benefited mightily as if they united stations were drawn on the league of arab nations experience. we will bring the session to a close and have a break and have a networking session. >> thank you.[ applause ] >> here some of our live coverage on wednesday. on day 19 of the government showdown, the house will me that to the clock a.m. eastern and members the -- debate and

i think she's perfectly right and she pointed out you know many presidents up to the time of woodrow wilson submitted most of the presence or not all of them submitted this state of the union message in writing so i think that for the president to think that this is. time is normal that these in normal times he's just wrong he doesn't understand the pain that americans are feeling what do you think is going to happen oh i think he's he doesn't yet understand the pain that people feel. he's is a very cruel person it turns out i mean look at the program that he had to separate children from parents allowed us government officials to tear children out of their mother's arms and i mean it took a public outcry for him to say oh maybe there's something wrong with this he didn't see that it was wrong to get that from the get go and he says oh american workers who are laid off they're perfectly happy not to get that paycheck well there was just a recent poll that showed no the american workers who've been laid off they want to get paid for working anybody want to get paid for working so i think he

japan fellow at the woodrow wilson center. he's also professor in the policy management faculty in tokyo and he is an adjunct fellow. he focuses on american politics and foreign policy. and international or u.s. japan relations. and i think he's well known, again, to this audience as a real pro, an expert in the issues we are going to be talking about today. next to him is a colleague at the woodrow wilson center. we are delighted that we have his great expertise. an expert on japan, northeast asia. she was a journalist for a decade writing about the international political economy with an emphasis on asian markets. she has done diverse set of work in political economy, my home area as well. and so we've got a lot in common. and a lot to talk about. we are delighted to have you with us. and then at the end, is there back. who works for albright stonebridge group. he is a former official at ustr. he also worked at the white house but in fact, he was both my predecessor and successor at the white house. which is a neat trick. an

it had been screened by woodrow wilson that year earlier. it was taking the nation by storm and i'm sure most of you know what birth of the nation is all about, but for those who don't, it is a celebration of the klu kluxx klan, the whites were happy, the blacks were happy. the north comes with this war of aggression. they win. even had the tumerity to arm blangs and they stayed in the south and were essentially roughians that intimidated and assaulted the white women, so the klan had to rise up and chase off these soldiers to intimidate black people so they would not vote because they were voting and were sending incompetent black legislatures and so the klan came and stopped all of that and the whites regained their place in the south and it was a birth of a nation. and the movie was taking the country by storm. so this was the scene, the spector during this 50th anniversary in 1915. there were people who thought that something needed to be done about that. one person who thought that something should be done about that was, of course, dr.

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i think she's perfectly right and she pointed out you know many presidents up to the time of woodrow wilson submitted most of the presence or not all of them submitted this state of the union message in writing so i think that for the president to think that this is. time is normal that these in normal times he's just wrong he doesn't understand the pain that americans are feeling what do you think is going to happen oh i think he's he doesn't yet understand the pain that people feel. he's is a very cruel person it turns out.