look woodrow wilson was the first american president to hold a phd. he was also the first american president to be openly contemptuous toward the constitution and he genuinely was he was he had a religious zeal for the progressive cause and as part of that he believed that we had to have experts unvarnished untainted experts to govern the unwashed masses and that the unwashed masses should be sort of kept away from the true decision making in government. of course, this is an athama to the constitution. it didn't work within it. and so woodrow wilson was openly hostile toward it. he tried to move away. he was the first president to push aggressively toward a weakening of of the concept of federalism the supreme court was astute and alert enough to push back on them on that. it wasn't a perfect resistance, but it was an effective resistance against his efforts, but he planted the seeds and those seeds later found more fertile soil a couple of decades later under the administration of president franklin d roosevelt, they did and so walk us through if yo

he later co-authored a biography of woodrow wilson. with sigmund freud he counted honoring matisse as a friend and ernest hemingway used to drop ice country estate outside paris and together they drank. very good wine. he had an 18,000 bottle wine cellar and they shot clay pigeons. let me read a few experts from a couple of letters that bullet wrote to president roosevelt some of which are deeply personal. in 1934 after having served in moscow for only a few months bullet wrote. i'm about homesick in many years. i have not had the sensation that i had a home. but in this past year talking about 1933. mrs. you and mrs. roosevelt have made me feel that i was a member of the family and the thing i miss so much is the afternoons and evenings with you in the white house. i'm much too fond of you all. and in other letters, he actually conveyed his love for the president. the bullet as you might have gathered was the consummate flatterer. he left moscow in the summer of 1936 and and months later was appointed ambassador to france. and in 1937

that is the lesson of woodrow wilson.a: tie that what he said moments ago, that you think it is very to get rid of chinese goods. do you think from a diplomatic reason, this is beneficial? richard: it would have a moderate impact on both. the impact on inflation, a few decimal point never hurts. that would be one of the ways he would do it. they put in place for them for the chinese economy. what they are doing is mainly penalizing american. the trump administration did not get through and slapped on tariffs. they do not want to be looking weak on china. do smart stuff and politics will take care of themselves. jonathan: that famous line on several fronts. tom: it is a changed man ape. down from 124, but take price from a year ago or two years ago. jonathan: on china, they have come out to say that they need to get rid of tariffs on china. the president still has not made a decision on. not clear what the outcome of that meeting actually was. lisa: instead it penalize consumers. how do they position this argument? it is a

the president like woodrow wilson is a blockhead got somebody arrested by the by feds and prosecuted there were more than 2,000 prosecutions more than a thousand convictions. a lot of people really suffered. the leader of the socialist party eugene debs was sentenced to 10 years in jail. he was by that time already a three-time president candidate for president, but it didn't stop him from being put in the federal penitentiary. and it was really in reaction to that civil liberties meltdown. that people primarily lawyers in the beginning began to speak out about the importance of protecting free speech and aclu was founded in 1920 to lead that fight but then even then it was a long long fight through. you know in the following decades. right and what you i think one of the major thesis and you know when we were talking last week, you were kind of joking that this is the first book you've written in that, you know, it's pertinent to current events. so can talk a little bit how that has evolved and how people who are marginalized or have been oppressed? they're the biggest beneficiaries

you mentioned the woodrow wilson case. mrs. wilson is regarded by many historians effectively our first female president. she was making decisions for a critical year when the country was falling apart, rapid inflation, riots all around the country. so it was a bad time. in the case of john kennedy even though he had these illnesses he demonstrated in the cuban missile crisis that he could handle the pressure, he could deal with the severe potentially existential crisis. again i think the public has to demand what the health of the president is. they got to put out the information and fortunately in the case of a covid it is so out there that they're not going to take any chance again of a president being hidden in the white house, suddenly you find if we had taken him to the hospital we might have avoided something very bad. neil: yeah, no matter his age or who he is the fact of the matter you have easier time finding people who not tested positive for covid these days than who had. i wonder if this puts a recent poll, issue n

woodrow wilson's wife was running the country after a stroke.ater about franklin roosevelt and his final years before his death in 1945 that folks had no idea were going on. general jack keane is a student of history as well on that. it's a little different today, general, if you indulge me here. we hope and it looks like everything is fine with the president. a mild case. hope it stays that way. no reason to plot or plan alternative arrangements. but it did remind folks again of that presidential power and moment where it looks like it's vulnerable. what do you think of it all? >> well, we're an open democratic society. certainly a very transparent about what is happening to our president and the american people and the world at large. in terms of national security, certainly our apparatus is 24/7 to defend the homeland, protect the united states interests abroad. that continues. all of our intelligence collection systems are up and going full blast and that certainly consists of intelligence, electronic intelligence, signals intelligence, cybe

magnum opus it's in madison and hamilton and particularly the federalist papers and their nemesis woodrow wilson. and many ways the book is witty and demonstrating british philosophy he quotes saying dreaming and generate tyranny. george wills is a great critic of the overreaching overheated rationalist progressivism of our time. tierney and defenses against it are the subject of churchill's great speech. he finds the greatest defense and the heritage and tradition of the rule of law exemplified by unwritten constitution and that well written american constitution. they are our civil religion. scalia at saint we do not have a monarch, we have a constitution. he himself churchill speaks of the iron curtain speech about magna carta, the bill of rights, habeas corpus trial by jury, english common law and most famous of the declaration of independence. the work i do today is director of the institute as we head into the 250th anniversary of the founding we can find this luminous moment and do the work of sharing this heritage and ideals at the remarkable experience that george wills writes so brilli

expert class in keeping with the progressivism of woodrow wilson and the like that distributes acrossld, everything that we have in terms of property, that we earn in terms of bread. they also want to take over the minds of the young of people who are rising through the public school systems. it is a myth to say this is a battle happening just now, the pandemic revealed to a lot of parents that has been going on for a while now. if you are going to stand up on a pedestal and say i must worship me, you must eradicate everything that says, from the enlightenment values, through judeo-christian faith, you have merged something that made american exceptional as a nation, freedom, liberty and individual rights of people that came out of the christian faith and out of the judeo-christian understanding of our relationship with the almighty formed in a new way by our founders who took lessons of those principles and applied them through your declaration and constitution and bill of rights, they have chartered a path forward for us and allowed us to succeed. the left today is dedicated to thei

magnum opus, it's madison and hamilton and particularly the federalist papers and their nemesis, woodrow wilson. in many ways, the book is a witty and devastating collaboration of british philosopher, michael oakes shots great essay, rational-ism in politics. he quotes oak shot saying, dreaming and ruling generates tyranny. george will is the great critic of the overreaching, overheated rational list progressivism of our time. tyranny and defenses against it are the subject of churchill's great iron curtain speech. unlike george will, he finds the greatest offense in the heritage and tradition of the rule of law, exemplified by the british unwritten constitution and the very well written american constitution. they are, how are several religion. george will quotes -- we don't have monarch. we have a constitution. he himself refers to the making of constitution and its defense by madison and hamilton as our lewis moment. churchill speaks in the iron curtain speech about magnet carded, the bill of rights, trial by jury, english common law and most famously, the declaration of independence. it is

the progressive period under woodrow wilson cannot pose of anything like this.the 1920's, the jazz age. again, you get people like to kill harding. there was corruption in the harding administration. but as mr. walters shows, it had nothing to do with harding. and the people that were corrupt got busted. the teapot dome standoff -- harding had nothing to do with that. he was a good, middle-of-the-road conservative republican senator from ohio. here is the thing about harding. return to normalcy. i said this earlier in the show -- harding working with calvin coolidge, who is another guy, liberals hit coolidge -- coolidge, by the way, maybe the first law & order guy, he stopped the police strike in massachusetts, he was tough on crime, that is a big issue today. and andrew mellon was the quarterback. they slashed tax rates. and they slashed spending, and the even slashed the federal debt, even though i don't care about that as much as some people. we had unbelievable prosperity in the 1920's. another industrial age. literature, art, everything exploded. unfortunat

and woodrow wilson who was nearing the end of his term and who had waited too long in her view to enter the world war. she declared we want not the man who waits for the psychological moment. we want the men who makes the psychological moment. now as you listen to this poem by corinne i want you to bear in mind the observation of cs lewis that quote we laugh at honor and then are surprised to find that we have traders in our midst. well the roosevelt's never left at honor. and here is another dig at wilson who wanted peace without victory. this poem is called two peace with victory. and she says i could not welcome you a longed four piece unless you're coming had been heralded by victory. the lessons, excuse me, the legions who have bled and elsewise died in vain for our release. but no that you come sternly let me kneel and pay my tribute to the myriad dead. who counted not the blood that they have shed against the goal their valor shall reveal? what had been the shame had all the stars? and stripes of our brave flag drooped still unfurled when the fair freedom of the weary world hung

i want to talk about the pound from the modern age, from woodrow wilson to ronald reagan, to george wbush and may be president who is a bit of an agent state. that is presidents in the summer doldrums of just trying to schedule out the summer to get to the fall. what is the mood, 1600 pennsylvania avenue, or what is the plan to get to the frigid temperatures of september? >> not sure there is much of a plan to get through the doldrums of summer given the administration has had to respond to so many crises. there is a sense of, i don't know if it is panic, but they feel they need to do something on inflation issues. obviously the idea of potentially talking tariffs with china plays into that. the focus on russia and ukraine has been so significant. there has been a challenge of trying to set the agenda rather than respond. tom: that's exactly right. that is why we love to have you on, and to set the agenda. i have no idea at the white house, who is setting the agenda. is it the president? who is it? jack: i'm not sure anybody at the white house, including the white house on a whole is

randolph hearst newspapers agreed with a tribune the roosevelt was following what it called woodrow wilson's fallacious reasoning. instead of assuring america of peace roosevelt was pursuing the same ominous course toward war that wilson pursued in 1917. and her's concluded that the best way to stay out of war was to continue quote minding our own business. this is in all caps. her's favorite key on the typewriter was the caps lock key and to keep out a foreign entanglements. in hurst view the present president was leading his people into the storm instead of protecting them from it. now roosevelt was really stung by these editorials. he'd expected criticism from mccormick, but he was surprised by the hearst piece and at a press conference the next day. he went off the record to attack the person he called old man hearst. and he said that her senatorial was perfectly terrible awful and the silliest thing ever written. and he said the hurst deliberately misunderstood. his policy the policy was trying to promote in the speech. he said the policy was to keep the us out of war not to drag the us

great advocate of temperance and really josephus daniels is assistant secretary of the navy under woodrow wilson his big cause was wiping out sin, which if you've ever met a sailor, you know, what a tall ordered that is and he banned any beverage stronger than coffee on ships bases and even in the officers' mess which is why we still call a cup of coffee a cup of joe after joseph is daniel. so fdr was his lieutenant in that cause the first decades of this century were very anti-immigrant very ant. click and increasingly anti-german is we got into the war in europe the annie immigrant cause came because we had had such a huge amount of immigrants coming into the country many of whom were catholic. so you had the the italians who were catholic and drank wine you had the germans who were lutheran, but they drank beer and then you had the irish who were catholic and drank everything and these nice protestant members of the wctu were just afraid of these people and and didn't trust them and they thought you know, the catholic religion was voodoo or something. there was also an organization that got s

under woodrow wilson cannot post like this. the jazz age and again you get people like to kill harding. now, there was corruption in the administration. but as mr. walter shows, had nothing to do with hardy. and the people who were corrupt got busted. they're thrown in jail. tell us hardy had nothing to do with it. he was good,d, middle-of-the-rod conservative senator from ohio. here's the thing about harding, returns to normalcy. harding again i said this earlier in the show, working with calvin coolidge was another guy liberals hate coolidge. coolidge by the weight may be the first guy who stopped the police drive in massachusetts. people forget about that. he was tough on crime that's a big issue today. and andrew mellon was the quarterback. lathey/tax rates. and they/spending. and they even slashed the federal debt even though i don't care about that as much somet people do.he and we had unbelievable prosperity in the 1920s. again, another industrial age. literature, art, everything. and unfortunately herbert hoover came in

one of the main ideologists of propaganda was woodrow wilson's adviser. walter lickman.e up with the concept of the production of consent, that is, he scientifically substantiated the method of massive use of the media as an instrument of implicit pressure in 1922. he wrote that the ability to produce consent, that is, to achieve a result without the audience noticing the manipulation of this technology, which will turn democratic systems upside down more than any revolution in his work called the phantom of the public, a favorite of the american president, called the people a stupid herd neither literate and intrusive, which is necessary keep. as a spectator of a historical show, but not a participant in any way. the nephew of sigmundovreid edvard bernis also contributed to the conviction for the purpose of management, conscious smart manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an essential element of a democratic society. wrote. bernes, those who manage this invisible, social mechanism and are the invisible government of our country, according to

you know, we went to the assistant secretary of the navy underwood woodrow wilson, and then he was the democratic vice presidential candidate in 1920 at the age of 38 his career seemed destined. to go to the white house or to be a candidate for president. so i we keep that in mind we think of them as the most successful president of all time elected four times the shoe in he was wealthy. his name was roosevelt his his cousin was teddy. his wife was eleanor who was teddy was her aunt as you know, but then polio and actually you'd say it was kind of amazing that he did become president. he was no shoe and after that. campobello island the family home in 1921 he gets polio he's unable to walk ever again without being aided. and his political career is kind of up in the air if at all, i mean lewis house sort of he was his campaign manager if you remember his name. and he said to eleanor, you know, you need to get out there and you know represent him and be keeping be public. she had been you know a mother in house housewife or whatever for many years, but she was interested and became invo

previous tips curator of the woodrow wilson presidential library and museum in stanton, virginia. and prior to that curator of the historical society and york. director of the museum farm and folklife center on long island and worked at the greensboro historical museum in north carolina. jared receive his ma in studies and ba in history from the university of north carolina at greensboro. he's also a blacksmith, woodworker, rates bonsai tree is a photographer and active in numerous films but it's wonderful to have him with us today. and again, probably time for q&a at the end of our presentation. please feel free to leave this at the bottom of your screen. without further ado i'm going to turn the zoom over too jarod. >> right. well hello. thank you so much for that great intro. and thank you to a highlands and the james monroe museum for having me pam excited to be here and show some really cool stuff from elizabeth monroe's life. now before i begin, i before i jump into mystical artifacts i have here. i'm going to ask you a question, if you are inn your house in tie suddenly slo

of the james monroe museum and library in november of 2011 previously, he was curator of the woodrow wilson presidential library and museum in staunton, virginia and prior to that. curator of the rye historical society in new york he has been director of the holicville museum farm in folklife center on long island and worked at the greensboro historical museum in north carolina. jared received his ma in museum studies and ba in history from the university of north carolina at greensboro. he is also a blacksmith woodworker raises bonsai trees is a photographer and is acted in numerous films. it's wonderful to have him with us today. and again, there will be time for q&a at the end of our presentation. so, please feel free to leave those at the bottom of your screen. without further ado. i'm going to turn the zoom over to jared. right well, hello. thank you so much for that great intro and thank you highlands and the james room museum for having me. i'm really excited to be here and to show you some some really cool stuff from elizabeth monroe's life now. before i begin before i started jump

he's now at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars, a think tank. kaye is a senior fellow at the university of california los angeles' burkle center for international relations. she's written dely about the middle east. welcome to you both. dalia, i want to begin with you. you have said president biden's decision to visit saudi arabia is a mistak, it never should have been planned. explain to me why. dalia: i think the dilemma is that the president clearly has compromised on u.s. values and actually -- and interest in accountable partners. the likelihood is he's not likely to get many significant strategic gains from this visit. as your piece set up, this is a leadership now in saudi arabia believed to be responsible for the murder of a washington post journalist, continuing to repress dissidents inside the country and abroad, including u.s. citens, and launched a catastrophic war in yemen. if you are going to make saudi arabia a centerpiece of your foreign policy, it is fair to ask what will we get in return from a u.s. perspective? it is not clear

woodrow wilson failed by one vote in the senate forgetting official censorship.espionage act -- hundreds of people in jail for speeches and articles they wrote. mccarthyism. this is a recurring theme in u.s. history. we are seeing a strong example of it right now. amy: joe lauria,, thank you for being with us editor-in-chief of , the independent news outlet consortium news, founded in 1995. a former u.n. correspondent for "the wall street journal," "boston globe," and others. investigative reporter for "the sunday times of london." now with consortium news. thank you so much for being with us. as calls grover biden to declare public health emergency to ensure access to abortion after the super court overturned roe, we will get an update from two leading abortion providers in southern states, including diane derzis, ceo of jackson women's health organization, yes, the clinic at the center of this supreme court case that led to the overturning of roe. stay with us. amy: "up in flames" by grace cummings. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace re

of the russian army and, as a result of its foreign campaign, on july 12, 1920, us president woodrow wilson announced the opening of the panama canal. this is one of the largest and most complex hydrotechnical projects. in history. the total length of the canal is more than 81 km, the width is 150 m. the depth is at least 12. connect the atlantic and the pacific oceans dreamed. with the discovery of america, it became technically possible only in the 19th century to build the canal by the french, but there was not enough money, the baton was intercepted by the united states however, panama was then part of colombia and its government refused to give the americans rights to the territory along the canal then the united states staged a revolution panama, separated from colombia and accepted the conditions of the americans returned to control itself panama was able only in 2000. the canal is considered the most important international transit route, has a neutral status and is open to ships of all countries. peaceful and wartime on july 12, 1943, the largest and fiercest tank battle of the sec

see this from his experience during the first world war his experience of having served under woodrow wilson and what happens to him over the league of nations debate wilson is always hovering over roosevelt quite literally those about has a picture of wilson in the white house that he constantly would look up at whenever he was writing state addresses and speeches and the idea and what shower talks about this in his book was that that was an ever-present lesson don't get too far ahead of the american public and it's clear at this time if you look through roosevelt's papers, if you look through all of the material other roosevelt library the importance that's placed on unity on bringing a united country into war just how controversial it was for american troops to again fight on european soil and if those going to do it, he needed a united country behind him and the influence of america first comes from that this sense to which he doesn't want to bring the united states into the war where there's going to be criticism of that decision and we see across this period even for many of those who

and i had heard only through this history joke about edith wilson, woodrow wilson's wife, being the first female president. because legend has it he may have gotten into a coma and she may have you know taken over for him. and so i wrote this really fun irreverent -- six script about her. but it said on the last page, this is meant to be an anthology series about different first ladies. it would be a different one every season. and it was really when the script, my manager, brad catlin, gave it to kathy, and she told me, you know, i've been thinking about doing a show about first ladies and maybe we can work together but she really pushed us starting in this first meeting we had in january of 2017. so that's how long these things take for anyone out there who isn't aspiring tv or film creator, have. patience from our first meeting she was, you know, pushing. who are, you know, how can we updated? how can we make it more temporary? maybe how can we do first ladies and have a built-in bigger audience than mrs. wilson? how can we think about bigger themes? she had just started this great com

getting involved in world war i is conducted in the league of nations a book by two biographers woodrow wilson and henry cabot lodge. both are arguing they are defending the washington tradition. he served with a little more authenticity saying we've never gotten involved in a continental fight, why would we start now? wilson is saying note the ideals of washington are at stake. and a lot once we do get involved in the first world war involves calling on washington's legacy. and then something really interesting happens. it happens fairly quickly all the sudden maybe it looks like washington was not this perfect profit. we can get involved in foreign wars, pretty short or do good make the world safer democracy. so it takes washington down a peg. in a significant way. there is a backlash to involvement in the first world war. when the second world war comes about, you see a group called the america first committee. some were isolationists, but they use washington's farewell as a real avatar to be against the united states getting involved in the second world war. this hits an absurd assistance

it goes back to woodrow wilson, dreams of world cooperation and world order.that was very much there. it's not as if meta was dismantled after 91. in fact, nato was expanded across much of europe. in part, a very small country to country, and part as a hedge against russia's return. so, at the same time, there is a hope for a world without bloc, without conflict, without tension that hope was qualify to agree by the expectation is might return and that was one of the reasons why nato is still kept in existence. >> did the cold war really end? some people say, not really. what's your view on that? did, and but there were continuities into the new era. >> i think the cold war ended, certainly, for a time. one of the ways it's still over is that the cold war was not just a battle of countries and not just a battle of armies in a matter of nuclear weapons. the cold war was a battle of ideas. whatever the current crisis is or the current competition is, it's much more of a standard classic geopolitical competition between the united states and russia or between the

the first female president and i had heard always heard this history joke about edith wilson woodrow wilson's wife being the first female president because legend has it he may have gone into a coma she may have you know taken over for him. um, and so i wrote this really fun irreverent spec script about her and but it said on the last page this would this is meant to be an anthology series about different first ladies. it would be a different one every season. it was really when the script my manager brad kaplan gave it to kathy and she told me you know, i've i've been thinking of doing a show about first ladies and maybe we can work together, but she really pushed us starting in this first meeting. we had in january of 2017. so that's how long these things take for anyone out there who's an aspiring tv or film creator have patience. um from our first meeting she was you know, pushing on who are you know, how can we how can we update it? how can we make it more contemporary? maybe how can we do first ladies that have a built-in bigger audience than than mrs. wilson, how can we think about big

china the united states would all be integrated into some kind of collective system goes back to woodrow wilson and dreams of of world cooperation and world order that was very much there, but it's not as if nato was dismantled after 1991 and in fact nato was expanded across much of europe in part and it varies from country to country but in part as a hedge against russia's return so at the same time if there was a hope for a world without blocks and without conflict and without tension, you know that hope was qualified to a degree by the expectation that this might return and that was one of the reasons why nato is still kept in in existence. did the cold war really end? some people say not really what's your view on that? i mean it did end it did end but there were continuities into the new era. i think the cold war ended certainly for for a time and one of the ways in which it's still over is that the cold war was not just a battle of countries and not just a battle of armies and a matter of nuclear weapons. the cold war was the battle of ideas and whatever the current crisis is or the curre

um, there's iconic examples of this in the past the most commonly referred to have to do with woodrow wilson after he had a major stroke in office in 1924 and he members of his cabinet. question his capacity and in fact, he was incapacitated. he was in fact completely paralyzed on half of his body and marshall decided to challenge whether or not he was capable of discharging the duties of his office and that along with wilson's wife edith and his secretary joseph tumulty and his doctor robert grayson and they all got together and decided to pull the wool over the cabinets eyes, and they brought um, marshall and other members of the cabinet into the sick room where the paralyzed side of his body was on away from entrance to the door. they closed the drapes so that no one could see how incapacitated he was and he could sort of partly speak on one side of his mouth. and so he appeared to look like he was you know still functioning although in fact. is not um, they did not they were not able to pursue this was of course before the 25th amendment they weren't able to pursue moving him out of offi

the washington history seminar is a collaborative venture of the woodrow wilson center's history and public policy program and the american historical associations national history center. and for over the past decade. the seminar has been meeting weekly and pre-covid times in person at the wilson center and since the pandemic here in the virtual realm this is the final seminar of the season, but we will return on january 23rd with a full lineup that will take us to the end of may. our announcement of the spring winter schedule will be available early in the new year behind the scenes are two people who make these seminars possible pete beer stecker of the wilson center and rachel wheatley of the national history center, and as always we'd like to thank our institutional supporters the george washington university department of history as well as any number of anonymous individual donors and as we say every single week, we invite you to join their ranks on the logistics front, please note today's session is being recorded and can soon be found on our institution respective websites. a