maine is really at a zenith of prosperity and there is a -- recession in the late 1850s. generally speaking, maine is really cresting in both its economic and its political force at that time. >> last week we were at the home of henry clay. were there connections between james g. blaine and henry clay? >> there were in a sense that he had grown up in a house where clay was absolutely idolized and clay was an idol for him as well. and when he was a young man he spent some time in kentucky actually. and working as a teacher and he made the point of seeing clay whenever he could when he was in kentucky. and so he was -- he was a -- very devout fan. >> i think one there is one account at the age of 17, he attended one of clay's major speeches in 1847 and took copious notes on it. >> our next caller in our discussion about james g. blaine is from indianapolis. this is edward. >> caller: hi. how are you? >> great, thanks. your question? >> caller: what was the role of blaine as secretary of state under benjamin harrison? >> okay. if you would do that briefly because we are goin

this is such a great story of captain pabst and his kind of reaching the zenith of his career. the pabst brewing company decided to exhibit pabst products at the world's fair in chicago in 1893. so captain pabst had this amazing pavilion built out of terra cotta and stained glass to display a 13 square foot model of all the pabst buildings in milwaukee created and burnished all in 24 carat gold. it was very elaborate display. so pabst of course, was submitted into the contest to be chosen as america's finest beer, which it was. and on every can and bottle of pabst blue ribbon today still has the note that this was chosen as america's finest beer in 1893. so with captain pabst with a gold medal in his hand and that's a little secret that there never actually was a blue ribbon. that was a marketing gimmick that captain pabst came up with. with the gold medal, he had the entire structure dismantled, crated up and brought to milwaukee and added to the side of the mansion. so here we are in the pavilion. so this was -- this was captain pabst's display at the world's fair which anyth

. >> and how many acres does the house have today, and how many did henry clay have at his zenith? >> today we sit on about 17 acres here at ashland. we have the contract for the first 2500 acres. at its height the farm was about 670 acres. >> we should learn a little bit more about his family before we go in here as well. he and his wife had how many children all together, and did they all live here? >> they had 11 children. however, they did not all live here at the same time. there was a lot of tragedy in the family. all six of henry's daughters would die. only two made it into early adulthood. and one of the sons died as well. so there was a fair bit of tragedy here. >> now the house interprets henry clay at what period in his life? >> the house would interpret henry clay throughout his lifetime. we mention when he was born and go until his death in 1852. so we talk about the span of his life. we talk about his family and his political career as well. as well as his farming and legal career. >> what we're going to see now is what visitors to ash land would see as they tour the

pabst beer pavilion and this is such a great story of captain pabst and his kind of reaching the zenith of his career. the pabst brewing company decided to exhibit in 1893, and so captain pabst this this amazing pavilion built out of terra cotta and stained glass to display a square foot model of all the pabsts buildings in milwaukee created and burnished all in 24-karat gold. it was an elaborate display. and so pabst, of course, was submitted into the contest of america's finest brewer, which it was. and on every can of pabst blue r ribbon today still has the note this was chosen as america's finest beer in 1893. with the gold medal in his hand and that's a little secret

some would say you were at the zenith of your power really. the situation may or may not have changed later. it was the opportunity insofar as there ever was one, is that fair? >> yes. i mean, look, some people say you could have done after 1997, you just won this landslide victory, that would have been a chance. some people say after everything that happened after the death of princess diana, that would have been the chance. some would say right after the 2001 election, you won a big majority, that would have been the chance. the decision i took, rightly or wrongly, as i say, was there was never going to be a moment when this was not going to have to squeeze out the rest of the government agenda. and, you know, however supportive they seemed or however powerful i seemed, this was going to flip like that the moment you put such an issue center stage. you see the degree of focus on this inquiry now. so if you being the government of the day said i'm going to legislate on this, i think it would have been -- anyway, that's the decision i took. yo

really at its zenith. >> they say that everything changed except for her head scarf. >> well, yeah, sheto change too quickly. she has certainly done that, i think. >> talk about st. paul's. get a little background as to its significance in the national history. >> well, of course, it's a national church, where charles and diana were married. and it's always, you know, catches their imagination. but today is a special day for the queen. prayers will be said for philip, and for the queen. he has been at her side at every other jubilee. the silver jubilee in '77 and also ten years ago. it's sad he's not here today. >> you look at prince charles there. >> and camilla. >> the duchess of cornwall. >> harry, i think has really grown into the role, hasn't there? all the talk of him being a rebel prince. he's just now a great guy. and also we've got william and catherine there who just really have captured the imagination of the whole world. >> she must be at peace knowing that the future of the monarchy is in good hands. >> i think she's certainly very, very relaxed about the future. all we nee

that's, that's sort of the zenith of female impersonation, i think. and there's a great joy in getting older because you outgrow that. you outgrow that need to be that girl. i will never forget that aversion of that -- a version of that book was the commencement speech i gave at mount holyoke whichs, of course, a women's college in massachusetts. and as i was saying those things i looked out at some of those women who were among the smartest and most capable of them in the country, and a number of them were weeping. and they were weeping because they recognized not their true self, but the self that they'd been pretending to be all those years. and afterwards a number of their mothers said i wish somebody had said that to me when i was younger, you know? women put a lot of pressure on themselves to do ask be -- to do and be a certain way, and the the great glory of aging is you get to a certain point and you think, no more. i'm done. >> host: do men face that same challenge? >> guest: i don't think so. i don't think they face it in the same way, altho

takes the leaking of classified material which under the nixon administration had reached a kind of zenith particularly with the involvement of jack anderson and his publication in his syndicated column in 1971 of minutes from a national security council meeting that had occurred just four days earlier concerning the indopakistani war at the time and the number of other leaks that went to anderson and, of course, the pentagon papers which were leaked by daniel elsburg to "the new york times," the leak of the united states fallback negotiating position at the arms control negotiations with the soviet union in july of 1971, nixon and his men felt they simply couldn't conduct government under those conditions and they were right about that. which is one of the reasons why we saw a profusion of wiretap -- national security wiretaps under president nixon but the wicksy leaks event takes that, magnifies that exponentially in sheer scale of the documents although it's interesting from all that came out of wikileaks and i didn't follow it to the letter but i don't recall, steve, and you correct me

the zenith point was last august of 16.7% unemployment. you look at black teenage unemployment at 37%, the highest since the depression, look at median family incomes down, about 33% of the black community is living below the poverty line. out of the 45% increase we have seen in spook -- in food stamp recipients, 25% has been in the black community. small businesses -- i sit on the small business committee and an know that minority businesses and contractors are suffering. today's policies can help get the black economy restored. >> unemployment rate by demographic group, we can see adult men and women overall, but as we look at african- americans over 16 years old, that number is significantly higher than the average for all americans. >> we cannot have true restoration in the united states if we do not have the some of our parts strong. >> you look at the profits that come from small business, they are trailing. we have to talk about the right type of tax policies and incentives we can help -- we can have to help them grow in the urban c